Vatic Note: Well, add this to the WSJ hit piece on Obama, and I would say something is definitely amiss. Keep watching, since it means there is infighting going on between elite groups with similar agendas. Hopefully this results in some relief for us. What is interesting about this write up, is its pretty honest, direct, and brutal. He is a black man who is assessing this President and its from a different perspective and I enjoyed reading it from someone elses perspective in time and place. He is articulate and right about his honest assessment, not one thing he mentions can not be proven true by evidence. I give this man an ovation for his honesty and integrity. Having said all that, my next question is what does this mean for us. He would not have reached print had it not been acceptable and further, "why did he wait til now and why right behind the WSJ hitpiece?" That means more to me than this giving us, what we all out here already know.
The Obama Presidency: An Unfolding Disaster
Written by Larry Pinkney Friday, 02 July 2010 04:35
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/13489-the-obama-presidency-an-unfolding-disaster.html
by Larry Pinkney
“You must be the historians who keep this lesson alive because this story isn’t about one day, one event, one person, or even one lifetime… Pass this knowledge. Don’t forget. Not ever.”
- Leonard Peltier
A vast amount of this nation’s populace is as addicted to media hype as they are to oil. In this instance however, it is the government and the corporate media who are the kingpin pushers and the U.S. populace who are their hooked junkies.
Corporate government media spin, subterfuge, diversion, and outright lies are the continuing hallmarks of this nation’s institutions and of this present dishonest and insidiously pathetic Barack Obama presidency of unmitigated disaster. The Government and corporate media would not tell the truth even if their lives depended on it. Unfortunately, it is not their lives but those of everyday Black, Red, Brown, White, and Yellow peoples in this nation and throughout the world, who daily are being sacrificed on the bloody alter of chicanery and political expediency, on behalf of the wealthy elite.
Pertaining to the election and installment of Barack Obama as U.S. president almost a year and a half ago, a recent article disingenuously lamented that “we voted for a [hybrid Toyota] Prius but instead got a tank.” However, the fact is that the instant that virtually the entire U.S. corporate media and corporate / military establishment began throwing their support behind the then U.S. presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, even a dead man could have smelled a rat. In yet another recent article, a so-called ‘progressive’ bemoaned the lack of serious coverage of the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan, by the “mainstream” media, totally disregarding the obvious reality that this nation does not have a “mainstream” media. It has an embedded corporate-stream one.
As this Nobel “Peace” Prize holding conjurer, Barack Obama, has intensified the corporate empire’s war in Afghanistan, heightened the war in Pakistan [complete with unmanned killer drone missiles], and continued the war in and occupation of Iraq; corporate media pundits endlessly spin their webs of deceit. Even as Obama’s smug arrogance, his lack of governmental regulation and oversight of avaricious corporations, and his de facto servitude to the corporate elite has spawned the largest environmental, ecological, and concomitant economic oil-volcano (Gulf of Mexico) disaster in the history of this nation, corporate media pundits continue spinning their webs of diversion, omission, and deceit.
It was not enough that as president, Obama fully supported the criminal bail-out of the Wall Street elite, but he then went on to torpedo much needed single payer universal health care for the everyday populace of this nation - at the behest of the massive corporate insurance industry’s elite. If the Bush / Cheney regime was the inarticulate ‘Ivan the Terrible,’ then the Obama / Biden regime is assuredly a very articulate ‘Attila the Hun’ dipped in noxious perfume, which translates into more pain and blood of everyday people in this nation and around the world.
Think about it! Our schools, libraries, transportation, and public & private sector jobs, etc. are being eliminated while billions upon endless billions of dollars are spent on U.S. wars abroad which do not stop “terrorists” - but in fact enhances and gives birth to “terrorism.” This of course, is notwithstanding the fact that U.S. actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and elsewhere are in themselves state sponsored terrorism, with everyday people as the corporate / military cannon fodder; and terrorism begets terrorism. This is nothing more than cynically calculated disaster against the poor and what there is left of the U.S. middle class. Continuing the economic horrors of his predecessor in all but name, Obama is steadily in the process of wiping out the middle class in this nation - all in the very name [and rhetoric] of protecting it. As the gap rapidly widens between rich and poor in this nation, Obama, grinning like an articulate, cunning, Cheshire cat lauds his fake accomplishments, as if he has actually brought about some kind of “change we can believe in.” What rubbish! This is just more of the same - only worse.
Moreover, in the fairly recent debacle with U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, Obama did not simply ‘miss’ the opportunity to change the course of the war and begin a withdrawal of the U.S. military and corporate mercenaries from Afghanistan. He flagrantly and studiously ignored and avoided it! Obama knew precisely what he was doing.
To add insult to injury, Obama and the corporate media are now telling us that we did not really hear that which we know Obama said concerning beginning a military withdrawal from Afghanistan in July 2011. In typical Obama obfuscated, double-speak fashion, he now disavows his statement that the U.S. would begin to “start the pull out” in July of 2011. [Reference ‘Obama Disavows July 2011 Afghan Drawdown Date’ ]
This is of course reminiscent of May, 2009, when Obama reneged on and reversed his pledge to release photos depicting the torture of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq. Had Barack Obama actually had real concern for the safety and well being of U.S. men and women military personnel, which concern he claimed prompted him to reverse his pledge to the ‘American’ people, he would have at bare minimum, begun the withdrawal of U.S. troops, instead of continuing the war and occupation of Iraq, and increasing U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Clearly, Obama is a shrewd, calculating, pathological liar - albeit an articulate one. Make no mistake about it! Iran is the next military target for U.S. imperialism and Israeli apartheid-Zionism, further opening the gates of hell.
A manufactured pretext will be conveniently provided, and a military attack will ensue against Iran sooner or later. Does anyone remember the U.S. manufactured ‘Gulf of Tonkin’ incident pertaining to the bloody, undeclared war against the people of Vietnam?! Does anyone remember the fabricated ‘weapons of mass destruction’ pretext for bloody war against and occupation of Iraq?! Does anyone remember just a few short weeks ago, when the Obama / Biden regime fabricated details surrounding the sinking of the South Korean warship ‘Cheonan’ as a pretext and an attempt to intimidate and provoke conflict with both North Korea and China?! Remember these things well. As wrongfully imprisoned American Indian Movement [AIM] Leonard Peltier so poignantly said it: “Don’t forget. Not ever.”
Yet, White liberals, phony so-called ‘progressives, and biologically Black misleaders continue to be apologists for, and collaborators with, the Obama / Biden regime, stoically ignoring the ongoing and increased human, economic, and ecological disasters that said regime is heaping upon the peoples of this nation and world as it reeks unholy havoc upon us.
Barack Obama is in fact, shrewdly facilitating and overseeing the dismantling, not of the U.S. corporate / military empire, but rather of the economic and political human rights and legitimate needs of everyday Black, White, Brown, Red, and Yellow peoples in this nation. It is for this purpose that the corporate / military establishment and the corporate media ensured that Barack Obama was installed in the White House. This is an increasingly obvious disaster not for the wealthy elite who already have homes, villas, gated mansions, yachts, and cushioned financial holdings all over the world. It is however, a horrible disaster for everyday common folks in this nation and around this planet.
The July 4th, 2010, U.S. “Independence” Day celebration, is unfortunately and in reality, a macabre and equally blissful celebration of the successful corporate enslavement of everyday people of all colors in this nation. It is the theater of the absurd. Even as Barack Obama articulates hollow praises to the greatness of everyday common folks in this nation, he is busily furthering the political, economic, and ecological demise of them / us. Yes, it is the theater of the absurd and sad on so very many levels. We everyday people have yet to gain “independence” and freedom from the elite corporate / military masters of this nation.
So-called liberals, like their right-wing counterparts, have no stomach for addressing reality and struggling to bring about real systemic change. The war criminals remain embedded in the White House and Congress, and U.S. corporate / military wars are not only being waged upon people of other nations, but also upon the ‘American’ people themselves / ourselves. Wake up while there may still be time!
This nation has been subverted from bad to worse by Barack Obama, and his allies of the corporate elite who, in fact, financially own the corporate media.
Unhook yourselves from this government and its constant corporate media spin. Stop absorbing, believing in, and being diverted by the hype. Behold! Disaster has already been brought upon us, but there may yet be time to change the course of this nation and at lease minimize, mitigate, and ultimately reverse these unfolding catastrophes. It is our duty and right as humans to do this.
In the words of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, “feel the pain” of the everyday people (your sisters and brothers) and act accordingly; for soon that pain will be at your door and upon you and your family, if it is not already. Act now, for real systemic change, while there may yet be time! We must be both pragmatic and optimistic: Pragmatic enough to recognize the dire situation we are in, and optimistic enough to set out seriously to address and change it! This cannot and will not come about by osmosis. It must be brought about by the unrelenting struggle of everyday people!
Snatch the narrative from the corporate media! Tell your own stories, and organize locally and nationally to bring about real systemic change! You / we can do this. Indeed, we must do this for ourselves and the planet - Mother Earth - as a whole.
Onward my sisters and brothers! There is so very much work to be done. Onward!
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2010-07-06
Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers’ crisis G8/G20
Vatic Note: Well, if the bankers don't have to pay taxes than neither should we. Naomi does a good job of highlighting the G-20 meeting with the nazi Harper from Canada taking the lead to exempt the banks from the austerity program that is going to come down on everyone else so they can continue thier scam on the citizens of the globe. As I have mentioned before if these criminals start a world war for profit, then they are already the enemy and at war with us, we should simply go ahead and fight back for a change. We certainly know who the "real" enemy is who keeps working this cycle of perversion every 70 years or so whenever our seniors have their retirement built up and are ready to retire, the greedy bankers simply steal it from them through the Wall Street brokerage houses, well, we must finally say NO MORE. We do not have an FDR to do it for us this time around. This time we have to do it.
Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers’ crisis G8/G20
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/sticking-the-public-with-the-bill-for-the-bankers-crisis/article1620729/
Naomi Klein, From Monday's Globe and Mail Published
on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 7:11PM EDT Last updated on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 7:33AM EDT
My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I’m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday.
I’m talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world’s wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill.
How else can we interpret the G20’s final communiqué, which includes not even a measly tax on banks or financial transactions, yet instructs governments to slash their deficits in half by 2013. This is a huge and shocking cut, and we should be very clear who will pay the price: students who will see their public educations further deteriorate as their fees go up; pensioners who will lose hard-earned benefits; public-sector workers whose jobs will be eliminated. And the list goes on. These types of cuts have already begun in many G20 countries including Canada, and they are about to get a lot worse.
They are happening for a simple reason. When the G20 met in London in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, the leaders failed to band together to regulate the financial sector so that this type of crisis would never happen again. All we got was empty rhetoric, and an agreement to put trillions of dollars in public monies on the table to shore up the banks around the world. Meanwhile the U.S. government did little to keep people in their homes and jobs, so in addition to hemorrhaging public money to save the banks, the tax base collapsed, creating an entirely predictable debt and deficit crisis.
At this weekend’s summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convinced his fellow leaders that it simply wouldn’t be fair to punish those banks that behaved well and did not create the crisis (despite the fact that Canada’s highly protected banks are consistently profitable and could easily absorb a tax). Yet somehow these leaders had no such concerns about fairness when they decided to punish blameless individuals for a crisis created by derivative traders and absentee regulators.
Last week, The Globe and Mail published a fascinating article about the origins of the G20. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/how-canada-made-the-g20-happen/article1609690/ It turns out the entire concept was conceived in a meeting back in 1999 between then finance minister Paul Martin and his U.S. counterpart Lawrence Summers (itself interesting since Mr. Summers was at that time playing a central role in creating the conditions for this financial crisis – allowing a wave of bank consolidation and refusing to regulate derivatives).
The two men wanted to expand the G7, but only to countries they considered strategic and safe. They needed to make a list but apparently they didn’t have paper handy. So, according to reporters John Ibbitson and Tara Perkins, “the two men grabbed a brown manila envelope, put it on the table between them, and began sketching the framework of a new world order.” Thus was born the G20.
The story is a good reminder that history is shaped by human decisions, not natural laws. Mr. Summers and Mr. Martin changed the world with the decisions they scrawled on the back of that envelope. But there is nothing to say that citizens of G20 countries need to take orders from this hand-picked club.
Already, workers, pensioners and students have taken to the streets against austerity measures in Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Greece, often marching under the slogan: “We won’t pay for your crisis.” And they have plenty of suggestions for how to raise revenues to meet their respective budget shortfalls.
Many are calling for a financial transaction tax that would slow down hot money and raise new money for social programs and climate change. Others are calling for steep taxes on polluters that would underwrite the cost of dealing with the effects of climate change and moving away from fossil fuels. And ending losing wars is always a good cost-saver.
The G20 is an ad hoc institution with none of the legitimacy of the United Nations. Since it just tried to stick us with a huge bill for a crisis most of us had no hand in creating, I say we take a cue from Mr. Martin and Mr. Summers. Flip it over, and write on the back of the envelope: Return to sender.
Naomi Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
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Sticking the public with the bill for the bankers’ crisis G8/G20
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/opinion/sticking-the-public-with-the-bill-for-the-bankers-crisis/article1620729/
Naomi Klein, From Monday's Globe and Mail Published
on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010 7:11PM EDT Last updated on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 7:33AM EDT
My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I’m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday.
I’m talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world’s wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill.
How else can we interpret the G20’s final communiqué, which includes not even a measly tax on banks or financial transactions, yet instructs governments to slash their deficits in half by 2013. This is a huge and shocking cut, and we should be very clear who will pay the price: students who will see their public educations further deteriorate as their fees go up; pensioners who will lose hard-earned benefits; public-sector workers whose jobs will be eliminated. And the list goes on. These types of cuts have already begun in many G20 countries including Canada, and they are about to get a lot worse.
They are happening for a simple reason. When the G20 met in London in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, the leaders failed to band together to regulate the financial sector so that this type of crisis would never happen again. All we got was empty rhetoric, and an agreement to put trillions of dollars in public monies on the table to shore up the banks around the world. Meanwhile the U.S. government did little to keep people in their homes and jobs, so in addition to hemorrhaging public money to save the banks, the tax base collapsed, creating an entirely predictable debt and deficit crisis.
At this weekend’s summit, Prime Minister Stephen Harper convinced his fellow leaders that it simply wouldn’t be fair to punish those banks that behaved well and did not create the crisis (despite the fact that Canada’s highly protected banks are consistently profitable and could easily absorb a tax). Yet somehow these leaders had no such concerns about fairness when they decided to punish blameless individuals for a crisis created by derivative traders and absentee regulators.
Last week, The Globe and Mail published a fascinating article about the origins of the G20. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/g8-g20/news/how-canada-made-the-g20-happen/article1609690/ It turns out the entire concept was conceived in a meeting back in 1999 between then finance minister Paul Martin and his U.S. counterpart Lawrence Summers (itself interesting since Mr. Summers was at that time playing a central role in creating the conditions for this financial crisis – allowing a wave of bank consolidation and refusing to regulate derivatives).
The two men wanted to expand the G7, but only to countries they considered strategic and safe. They needed to make a list but apparently they didn’t have paper handy. So, according to reporters John Ibbitson and Tara Perkins, “the two men grabbed a brown manila envelope, put it on the table between them, and began sketching the framework of a new world order.” Thus was born the G20.
The story is a good reminder that history is shaped by human decisions, not natural laws. Mr. Summers and Mr. Martin changed the world with the decisions they scrawled on the back of that envelope. But there is nothing to say that citizens of G20 countries need to take orders from this hand-picked club.
Already, workers, pensioners and students have taken to the streets against austerity measures in Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Greece, often marching under the slogan: “We won’t pay for your crisis.” And they have plenty of suggestions for how to raise revenues to meet their respective budget shortfalls.
Many are calling for a financial transaction tax that would slow down hot money and raise new money for social programs and climate change. Others are calling for steep taxes on polluters that would underwrite the cost of dealing with the effects of climate change and moving away from fossil fuels. And ending losing wars is always a good cost-saver.
The G20 is an ad hoc institution with none of the legitimacy of the United Nations. Since it just tried to stick us with a huge bill for a crisis most of us had no hand in creating, I say we take a cue from Mr. Martin and Mr. Summers. Flip it over, and write on the back of the envelope: Return to sender.
Naomi Klein is the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
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Elite German troops leap into Tennessee skies, lifestyle
Vatic Note: I was ok with this story until the Commander said "no names" can be shared, so then I began to wonder if this is just another day at work, or are they getting ready to take us on. We are certainly not their enemy, so why would they be willing to do anything that requires you hide your name? For now, its just a suspicious story, but it bears watching and keeping an eye open. Also note the elite nature of these troops somewhat comparable to our seals or special ops. That bears keeping in mind as well.
Elite German troops leap into Tennessee skies, lifestyle
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jun/17/air-force-special-ops-tourists/
By Michael Lollar
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Posted June 17, 2010 at midnight
A hearse sits on the grounds of West Tennessee Skydiving in rural Fayette County with an advertisement on the side that says, "If It Can't Kill You It Ain't A Real Sport."
Overhead, 14 Germans are jumping from a two-engine plane at 23,000 feet, aiming for an 80-foot bed of pea gravel in the center's front yard.
The yard is like a pasture along a rural stretch off U.S. 64 near Somerville. Surrounded by cotton and soybean fields, the skydiving center has become part of annual training for some of the world's elite military special forces.
"It's like you have to inspect your car every year," says a chief master sergeant for Germany's version of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
His swimmers, the Kampfschwimmers or "combat swimmers," are trained for underwater operations, jungle and desert warfare. Like fictional special agent James Bond, the swimmers are known for stealth and clandestine operations.
"No names," says the sergeant, a training commander for the Germans. (VN: why not if its just a simple normal training session?)
Their two weeks of skydiving in Somerville are followed by two more weeks at the Mid-South Institute of Self-Defense Shooting in Lake Cormorant, Miss. It is a shooting range devoted exclusively to military, police and government agencies.
The Kampfschwimmers receive the same parachute training as Navy SEALs, says West Tennessee Skydiving owner Mike Mullins, a FedEx pilot and former Army helicopter pilot. The Germans have trained in Somerville for five years.
At altitudes higher than 15,000 feet, the jumpers use oxygen masks. From that height, they can glide 5 miles, but a 40,000-foot jump can mean silently gliding for up to 40 miles across borders to precise landing targets in enemy territory.
Unlike their home base on the Baltic Sea, Fayette County has "good and stable weather," says the sergeant. And there is little wasted time. Mullins' plane, a King Air B90, can climb to 14,000 feet in just seven minutes.
The Germans' landings are so gentle that the soldiers look like they are nimbly stepping from a car onto a grocery store parking lot.
Their parachutes are 300 to 400 square feet. Each is shaped like an airplane wing and guided by pulls that tilt the chute to provide last-minute lift and soft landings. Each chute has numbers printed on the bottom so the sergeant can easily identify a soldier who needs coaching.
"See, he is turning too sharply," says the sergeant, pointing skyward. "If you turn too sharp, you can go into a dive." Modern chutes have speed and altitude sensors that cause them to open automatically within about 700 feet of the ground. "If that happens, you may have a bad landing," says the sergeant.
Between jumps, most of the Germans speak English with British accents. They share more than training with their American counterparts. Serving in Afghanistan, they are away from home for long stretches.
"The worst part is that guys are separated from their families," says their commanding officer. On weekends, they visit tourist attractions such as Beale Street. "The Germans haven't met a beer they didn't like," says West Tennessee Skydiving instructor Chris Welker.
The German officer says his men also have become fond of a Chinese buffet in the food court at Wolfchase Galleria in Memphis. In Somerville, The Hut, known for its barbecue, is a favorite along with the Huddle House. "They eat a lot of eggs," says the officer.
From motels in Somerville and Oakland, the soldiers arise as early as 4a.m. and run all or part of the 12 miles from U.S. 64 to the skydiving center. They do at least four jumps each day and, at night, go to a gym in Oakland for weight training.
After repacking their 60-pound chutes, the soldiers relax between jumps. They are among the world's best swimmers, but their current service is in a land-locked country with no major bodies of water. They are like fish out of water, but their commanding officer says they are committed to the mission. "The reason we are fighting is that Afghanistan has long been a haven for terrorists," he says. (VN: Looks like propoganda is alive and well in Germany, just like here, they think we are in Afghanistan becuase of bogus terrorists that work for the CIA/Mossad, LOL, its nice to know Germany has unthinking soldiers like we do, that gives civilians a leg up.)
The Germans -- always reminded by history of Nazi aggression -- are careful of their international image, but NATO forces play for keeps. "NATO requires that soldiers be willing to shoot people. They expect us to be aggressive," says another officer.
One of his young soldiers discovers a unicycle leaning against the side of the main building. It belongs to one of Mullins' sons. The soldier tries to balance himself, but soon discovers that a unicycle may be one of those devices that can kill you. "No more," he says, abandoning the unicycle to prepare for his next jump.
-- Michael Lollar: 529-2793
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Elite German troops leap into Tennessee skies, lifestyle
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jun/17/air-force-special-ops-tourists/
By Michael Lollar
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Posted June 17, 2010 at midnight
A hearse sits on the grounds of West Tennessee Skydiving in rural Fayette County with an advertisement on the side that says, "If It Can't Kill You It Ain't A Real Sport."
Overhead, 14 Germans are jumping from a two-engine plane at 23,000 feet, aiming for an 80-foot bed of pea gravel in the center's front yard.
The yard is like a pasture along a rural stretch off U.S. 64 near Somerville. Surrounded by cotton and soybean fields, the skydiving center has become part of annual training for some of the world's elite military special forces.
"It's like you have to inspect your car every year," says a chief master sergeant for Germany's version of the U.S. Navy SEALs.
His swimmers, the Kampfschwimmers or "combat swimmers," are trained for underwater operations, jungle and desert warfare. Like fictional special agent James Bond, the swimmers are known for stealth and clandestine operations.
"No names," says the sergeant, a training commander for the Germans. (VN: why not if its just a simple normal training session?)
Their two weeks of skydiving in Somerville are followed by two more weeks at the Mid-South Institute of Self-Defense Shooting in Lake Cormorant, Miss. It is a shooting range devoted exclusively to military, police and government agencies.
The Kampfschwimmers receive the same parachute training as Navy SEALs, says West Tennessee Skydiving owner Mike Mullins, a FedEx pilot and former Army helicopter pilot. The Germans have trained in Somerville for five years.
At altitudes higher than 15,000 feet, the jumpers use oxygen masks. From that height, they can glide 5 miles, but a 40,000-foot jump can mean silently gliding for up to 40 miles across borders to precise landing targets in enemy territory.
Unlike their home base on the Baltic Sea, Fayette County has "good and stable weather," says the sergeant. And there is little wasted time. Mullins' plane, a King Air B90, can climb to 14,000 feet in just seven minutes.
The Germans' landings are so gentle that the soldiers look like they are nimbly stepping from a car onto a grocery store parking lot.
Their parachutes are 300 to 400 square feet. Each is shaped like an airplane wing and guided by pulls that tilt the chute to provide last-minute lift and soft landings. Each chute has numbers printed on the bottom so the sergeant can easily identify a soldier who needs coaching.
"See, he is turning too sharply," says the sergeant, pointing skyward. "If you turn too sharp, you can go into a dive." Modern chutes have speed and altitude sensors that cause them to open automatically within about 700 feet of the ground. "If that happens, you may have a bad landing," says the sergeant.
Between jumps, most of the Germans speak English with British accents. They share more than training with their American counterparts. Serving in Afghanistan, they are away from home for long stretches.
"The worst part is that guys are separated from their families," says their commanding officer. On weekends, they visit tourist attractions such as Beale Street. "The Germans haven't met a beer they didn't like," says West Tennessee Skydiving instructor Chris Welker.
The German officer says his men also have become fond of a Chinese buffet in the food court at Wolfchase Galleria in Memphis. In Somerville, The Hut, known for its barbecue, is a favorite along with the Huddle House. "They eat a lot of eggs," says the officer.
From motels in Somerville and Oakland, the soldiers arise as early as 4a.m. and run all or part of the 12 miles from U.S. 64 to the skydiving center. They do at least four jumps each day and, at night, go to a gym in Oakland for weight training.
After repacking their 60-pound chutes, the soldiers relax between jumps. They are among the world's best swimmers, but their current service is in a land-locked country with no major bodies of water. They are like fish out of water, but their commanding officer says they are committed to the mission. "The reason we are fighting is that Afghanistan has long been a haven for terrorists," he says. (VN: Looks like propoganda is alive and well in Germany, just like here, they think we are in Afghanistan becuase of bogus terrorists that work for the CIA/Mossad, LOL, its nice to know Germany has unthinking soldiers like we do, that gives civilians a leg up.)
The Germans -- always reminded by history of Nazi aggression -- are careful of their international image, but NATO forces play for keeps. "NATO requires that soldiers be willing to shoot people. They expect us to be aggressive," says another officer.
One of his young soldiers discovers a unicycle leaning against the side of the main building. It belongs to one of Mullins' sons. The soldier tries to balance himself, but soon discovers that a unicycle may be one of those devices that can kill you. "No more," he says, abandoning the unicycle to prepare for his next jump.
-- Michael Lollar: 529-2793
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Millions of birds set to fly into Gulf oil mess
Vatic Note: If there is a crime that needs to be answered for, this is the one. If heads do not roll with this event should it occur, then we, the people must obtain justice with these people. Lets look at who we should hold accountable. Now here are their pictures, copy them before they are taken down. Read their biographies. They best get the corexit out of the water because they will be held liable. Once we see the system doesn't work, we will discover ways to obtain justice, its just we aren't convinced yet, that the system is completely lost. Once we do, then we must get creative and do what Salduchi is talking about which is a second republic. Notice the comments about the seriousness of this spill by non BP or government interviewees. This spill occurred 3.5 months ago and they say the spill is not as serious as the Exxon Valdez? Does anyone else find this very interesting???? After these many months?? After the hype about how death threatening this was to everything and everyone??? Stay observant and don't respond to anymore fear mongering until we get info from those we can trust.
Millions of birds set to fly into Gulf oil mess
'They won't be safe on their fall passage,' says Audubon official
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38037033/ns/us_news-environment/
by Steve Gorman and Ernest Scheyder
updated 7/1/2010 7:42:03 AM
LOS ANGELES/FORT JACKSON, La. — Despite the images of oil-soaked pelicans flooding the media in recent weeks, wildlife experts say the toll on sea birds from BP's Gulf Coast oil spill is smaller than was anticipated, so far. That is expected to change drastically for the worse.
Scientists warn that as shifting weather and sea conditions conspire with the dynamics of avian life cycles, a tremendous number of birds will soon be put in jeopardy.
In the coming weeks, millions of waterfowl and other birds that flock to the Gulf Coast on their annual fall migration will arrive in the region either to roost for the winter or to make brief stopovers en route farther south.
With toxic crude still gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and streaks of the slick creeping inexorably farther inland, many more birds and other wildlife that nest, feed and find shelter on shore are likely to become casualties.
"To this point, we haven't seen a lot of oiled wildlife based on the size of the spill," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Catherine Berg said. "(But) there's still a lot of oil out there. There's still a lot of wildlife in the area."
Birds migrating through the Gulf largely dodged a bullet in the spring when newly escaped oil from the ruptured BP wellhead took longer than expected to wash ashore.
"A lot of those birds were safe on their spring passage, but they won't be safe on their fall passage," said Greg Butcher, bird conservation director for the National Audubon Society.
Wildlife officials are taking various steps to minimize the risks, cordoning off rookeries with containment booms, paying farmers to flood fields that could serve as temporary bird-friendly wetlands, and considering new duck hunting restrictions.
Authorities are even weighing the possibility of capturing baby pelicans to move them out of harm's way, said Jay Holcomb, head of the International Bird Rescue Research Center. Rehabilitation centers in the Gulf have treated over 800 oil-impaired birds and released at least 250 back to the wild.
The birds are tagged, and some have come through twice, said Holcomb, who oversees rescue operations out of the main treatment facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. "A lot of these birds ... want to come back to their nest," Holcomb said. "Most spills are over really quick, but this is like a new spill every day. It's really discouraging."
Drop box and body counts
A container labeled "Bird Carcass Collection Drop Box" in a corner of the Fort Jackson center is a grim reminder of the difficulties the rehab teams face. Over 100 oiled birds brought there have died or been euthanized, Holcomb said.
To date, more than 2,000 dead and debilitated birds have been counted along the entire Gulf Coast — quadruple the number reported a month ago when the government first began posting its daily tallies.
But Holcomb said partial or skeletal remains with no visible signs of oil exposure account for most of the 1,165 dead specimens found so far and unlikely were spill victims.
The high proportion of older remains from birds that died of natural causes can probably be attributed to the intense efforts to find and catalog every animal that may have been killed or injured in the disaster.
Those counts are more than just academic. They ultimately will help determine how much BP will be expected to pay into a compensation fund for wildlife damages.
Dr. Michael Ziccardi of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the University of California at Davis, said dollar figures attached to birds counted as casualties of past spills have ranged from $500 to $20,000 per individual. Factors include whether the bird was an endangered species and whether any economic or commercial value could be ascribed to the animal.
Exxon Valdez much worse, so far
As disturbing as pictures of oiled wildlife have been, the 850 oil-fouled birds found alive to date and hundreds more known to have died pale in comparison to the 250,000 seabirds estimated to have perished from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. "That may change as time goes on because more and more birds are probably going to be oiled," Holcomb said.
Experts say high winds and seas from any number of storms, including Hurricane Alex, could push more oil into the fragile patchwork of salt marshes, beaches, islands and inlets composing the Gulf's ragged shoreline. The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season that officially began last month is expected to be one of the more active in recent years.
Moreover, the Mississippi River's drainage into the Gulf is starting to dissipate after a robust spring outflow — fed by heavy rains and Tennessee floodwaters upstream — that helped keep oil away from shore in the early days of the spill.
As the river levels fall, the Gulf's waters will be drawn back up toward the mouth of the Mississippi and farther into the delta, along with more of the oil on the surface.
Pelicans, gannets and other plunge-diving species were among the hardest-hit at the spill's outset because they feed in open water — where the oil was then most present. Shorebirds such as sandpipers, and wading species like egrets and herons, are next in line.
"We have a lot of birds on rookeries. We have a lot of birds in the marshes, just roosting locally. Pretty soon, we're going to get an influx of waterfowl as they come in here to molt post breeding season," Berg said.
After mating and nesting in freshwater inland areas, many ducks and geese venture to the coast to molt, losing their worn summer feathers, then growing winter plumage, before continuing their fall migration. In between, they are flightless. "Think about it. A whole bunch of ducks that can't fly, on the water," Berg said.
Billion birds pass through
The Gulf Coast straddles the Mississippi Flyway, one of the world's major bird migration corridors and one that brings about 1 billion birds from more than 300 species through the region each year.
Tens of millions of sandpipers and plovers from Alaska and Canada will be arriving within days on their way to Latin America, Butcher said. Most roost in the uplands away from shore but venture down to the beaches, mudflats and sand bars to feed at low tide.
Herons and egrets that have stayed fairly stationary while nesting are now on the move with their young, potentially becoming more exposed to oil in the marshes, he said.
Hoping to create safe, clean rest stops for migrating birds as alternatives to wetlands fouled by oil, a land conservation agency of the U.S. Agriculture Department announced this week it would pay growers to convert cropland to bird habitat by flooding rice fields. Gulf authorities have had success here and there in keeping oil out of some prime bird real estate.
Hundreds of pelicans and other birds remain safe for now on Grand Terre Island, a major roosting ground in Louisiana's Barataria Bay that has been encircled with soft and hard boom.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and other local officials made the island's protection a top priority, though they acknowledge that a large storm could tear through the artificial barrier. Some of the surrounding marshes already have been fouled as oil continues to creep farther, especially during morning and evening tides.
"God forbid if we have another Katrina, we'll be picking oil off Bourbon Street," Nungesser said.
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Millions of birds set to fly into Gulf oil mess
'They won't be safe on their fall passage,' says Audubon official
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38037033/ns/us_news-environment/
by Steve Gorman and Ernest Scheyder
updated 7/1/2010 7:42:03 AM
LOS ANGELES/FORT JACKSON, La. — Despite the images of oil-soaked pelicans flooding the media in recent weeks, wildlife experts say the toll on sea birds from BP's Gulf Coast oil spill is smaller than was anticipated, so far. That is expected to change drastically for the worse.
Scientists warn that as shifting weather and sea conditions conspire with the dynamics of avian life cycles, a tremendous number of birds will soon be put in jeopardy.
In the coming weeks, millions of waterfowl and other birds that flock to the Gulf Coast on their annual fall migration will arrive in the region either to roost for the winter or to make brief stopovers en route farther south.
With toxic crude still gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico and streaks of the slick creeping inexorably farther inland, many more birds and other wildlife that nest, feed and find shelter on shore are likely to become casualties.
"To this point, we haven't seen a lot of oiled wildlife based on the size of the spill," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Catherine Berg said. "(But) there's still a lot of oil out there. There's still a lot of wildlife in the area."
Birds migrating through the Gulf largely dodged a bullet in the spring when newly escaped oil from the ruptured BP wellhead took longer than expected to wash ashore.
"A lot of those birds were safe on their spring passage, but they won't be safe on their fall passage," said Greg Butcher, bird conservation director for the National Audubon Society.
Wildlife officials are taking various steps to minimize the risks, cordoning off rookeries with containment booms, paying farmers to flood fields that could serve as temporary bird-friendly wetlands, and considering new duck hunting restrictions.
Authorities are even weighing the possibility of capturing baby pelicans to move them out of harm's way, said Jay Holcomb, head of the International Bird Rescue Research Center. Rehabilitation centers in the Gulf have treated over 800 oil-impaired birds and released at least 250 back to the wild.
The birds are tagged, and some have come through twice, said Holcomb, who oversees rescue operations out of the main treatment facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. "A lot of these birds ... want to come back to their nest," Holcomb said. "Most spills are over really quick, but this is like a new spill every day. It's really discouraging."
Drop box and body counts
A container labeled "Bird Carcass Collection Drop Box" in a corner of the Fort Jackson center is a grim reminder of the difficulties the rehab teams face. Over 100 oiled birds brought there have died or been euthanized, Holcomb said.
To date, more than 2,000 dead and debilitated birds have been counted along the entire Gulf Coast — quadruple the number reported a month ago when the government first began posting its daily tallies.
But Holcomb said partial or skeletal remains with no visible signs of oil exposure account for most of the 1,165 dead specimens found so far and unlikely were spill victims.
The high proportion of older remains from birds that died of natural causes can probably be attributed to the intense efforts to find and catalog every animal that may have been killed or injured in the disaster.
Those counts are more than just academic. They ultimately will help determine how much BP will be expected to pay into a compensation fund for wildlife damages.
Dr. Michael Ziccardi of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the University of California at Davis, said dollar figures attached to birds counted as casualties of past spills have ranged from $500 to $20,000 per individual. Factors include whether the bird was an endangered species and whether any economic or commercial value could be ascribed to the animal.
Exxon Valdez much worse, so far
As disturbing as pictures of oiled wildlife have been, the 850 oil-fouled birds found alive to date and hundreds more known to have died pale in comparison to the 250,000 seabirds estimated to have perished from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound. "That may change as time goes on because more and more birds are probably going to be oiled," Holcomb said.
Experts say high winds and seas from any number of storms, including Hurricane Alex, could push more oil into the fragile patchwork of salt marshes, beaches, islands and inlets composing the Gulf's ragged shoreline. The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season that officially began last month is expected to be one of the more active in recent years.
Moreover, the Mississippi River's drainage into the Gulf is starting to dissipate after a robust spring outflow — fed by heavy rains and Tennessee floodwaters upstream — that helped keep oil away from shore in the early days of the spill.
As the river levels fall, the Gulf's waters will be drawn back up toward the mouth of the Mississippi and farther into the delta, along with more of the oil on the surface.
Pelicans, gannets and other plunge-diving species were among the hardest-hit at the spill's outset because they feed in open water — where the oil was then most present. Shorebirds such as sandpipers, and wading species like egrets and herons, are next in line.
"We have a lot of birds on rookeries. We have a lot of birds in the marshes, just roosting locally. Pretty soon, we're going to get an influx of waterfowl as they come in here to molt post breeding season," Berg said.
After mating and nesting in freshwater inland areas, many ducks and geese venture to the coast to molt, losing their worn summer feathers, then growing winter plumage, before continuing their fall migration. In between, they are flightless. "Think about it. A whole bunch of ducks that can't fly, on the water," Berg said.
Billion birds pass through
The Gulf Coast straddles the Mississippi Flyway, one of the world's major bird migration corridors and one that brings about 1 billion birds from more than 300 species through the region each year.
Tens of millions of sandpipers and plovers from Alaska and Canada will be arriving within days on their way to Latin America, Butcher said. Most roost in the uplands away from shore but venture down to the beaches, mudflats and sand bars to feed at low tide.
Herons and egrets that have stayed fairly stationary while nesting are now on the move with their young, potentially becoming more exposed to oil in the marshes, he said.
Hoping to create safe, clean rest stops for migrating birds as alternatives to wetlands fouled by oil, a land conservation agency of the U.S. Agriculture Department announced this week it would pay growers to convert cropland to bird habitat by flooding rice fields. Gulf authorities have had success here and there in keeping oil out of some prime bird real estate.
Hundreds of pelicans and other birds remain safe for now on Grand Terre Island, a major roosting ground in Louisiana's Barataria Bay that has been encircled with soft and hard boom.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser and other local officials made the island's protection a top priority, though they acknowledge that a large storm could tear through the artificial barrier. Some of the surrounding marshes already have been fouled as oil continues to creep farther, especially during morning and evening tides.
"God forbid if we have another Katrina, we'll be picking oil off Bourbon Street," Nungesser said.
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2010-07-05
HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT RITALIN
Vatic Note: When you read this and combine it with our research on Satanic Ritual Abuse used on Children and pedophilia, and the mind control resulting from such combinations, it becomes clear why Bush was pushing the mental health testing of children in school and then the school deciding, NOT THE PARENTS, the school..... whether drugs will be used on the children. Add to that, the write up we did on Senator Shaffers investigations in the Child Protective Services role in taking children from homes at will, and those same children finding their way into illegal drug studies as experimental guinie pigs and into the sex and pedophilia world at the highest levels of gov, then it becomes clear why all this may have been done. Read it and decide for yourself, but there appears to be no other explanation that would fit those facts and circumstances occuring at the same time. Remember this is also going on with adults in the torture prisons that we are engaging in now. Read and see what you think and let us know.
HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT RITALIN
http://www.newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon101.htm
By Jon Rappoport
July 5, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a very important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.
For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literature:
• Paranoid delusions
• Paranoid psychosis
• Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
• Activation of psychotic symptoms
• Toxic psychosis
• Visual hallucinations
• Auditory hallucinations
• Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
• Effects pathological thought processes
• Extreme withdrawal
• Terrified affect
• Started screaming
• Aggressiveness
• Insomnia
• Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
• Psychic dependence
• High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
• Decreased REM sleep
• When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and
hypothermia
• Convulsions
• Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don't allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADHD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”
This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…
The very existence of the “illnesses” for which Ritalin would be prescribed is unproven. It is merely assumed.
In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller's book, Running on Ritalin, Dr. William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has written, “Dr. Diller has correctly described... the disturbing trend of blaming children's social, behavioral, and academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit...”
On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held the prestigious “NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].” The conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy, a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with. That didn't happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.
Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, “The diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess.”
The quite conventional and orthodox panel essentially said it was not sure ADHD was even a valid diagnosis. In other words, it virtually admitted that ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to categorize certain children's behaviors---with no organic cause, no clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD or ADHD labels. The panel found “no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric assumption].”
The panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in “little improvement on academic achievement or social skills.”
Panel chairman, David Kupfer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, said, “There is no current validated diagnostic test [for ADHD].”
Yet at every level of public education in America, there remains what can only be called a voracious desire to give children Ritalin (or other similar drugs) for so-called ADD or ADHD.
The 1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard): “Stimulants [such as Ritalin] do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity, conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job functioning, marital relationships, or long-term adjustment.”
Parents should also wake up to the fact that, in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado, school-shooting tragedy, pundits and doctors began urging much more extensive “mental health” services for children. Whether you have noticed it or not, this no longer means, for the most part, therapy with a caring professional. It means drugs. Drugs like Ritalin.
In December 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency held a conference on ADHD and Ritalin. Surprisingly, it issued a sensible statement about drugs being a bad substitute for the presence of caring parents: “[T]he use of stimulants [such as Ritalin] for the short-term improvement of behavior and underachievement may be thwarting efforts to address the children's real issues, both on an individual and societal level. The lack of long-term positive results with the use of stimulants and the specter of previous and potential stimulant abuse epidemics, give cause to worry about the future. The dramatic increase in the use of methylphenidate [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society about the problems children are having and how we view and address them.”
In his book, Talking Back to Ritalin, Dr. Peter Breggin expands on the drug's effects: “Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine... have grossly harmful impacts on the brain -- reducing overall blood flow, disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent shrinkage or atrophy of the brain.”
In the American press, although many articles have appeared covering “the debate” about Ritalin and ADHD, no newspaper or TV network has taken it upon itself to hammer on all the lies, day after day, month after month. That kind of campaign could turn around the whole nation on this vital subject---but of course, pharmaceutical advertising is a more powerful force.
And one should not forget that Ritalin came out of a Swiss drug giant called Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) fifty years ago. That company once had very close business ties with the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben. Farben stood for inhuman experiments on human beings. Read the adverse effects of Ritalin again, and consider that millions of children take those pills every day.
© 2010 Jon Rappoport - All Rights Reserved
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HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT RITALIN
http://www.newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon101.htm
By Jon Rappoport
July 5, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
In 1986, The International Journal of the Addictions published a very important literature review by Richard Scarnati. It was called “An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin (Methylphenidate)” [v.21(7), pp. 837-841].
Scarnati listed a large number of adverse affects of Ritalin and cited published journal articles which reported each of these symptoms.
For every one of the following Ritalin effects, there is at least one confirming source in the medical literature:
• Paranoid delusions
• Paranoid psychosis
• Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
• Activation of psychotic symptoms
• Toxic psychosis
• Visual hallucinations
• Auditory hallucinations
• Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
• Effects pathological thought processes
• Extreme withdrawal
• Terrified affect
• Started screaming
• Aggressiveness
• Insomnia
• Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
• Psychic dependence
• High-abuse potential DEA Schedule II Drug
• Decreased REM sleep
• When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions including hypertension, seizures and
hypothermia
• Convulsions
• Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse.
Many parents around the country have discovered that Ritalin has become a condition for their children continuing in school. There are even reports, by parents, of threats from social agencies: “If you don't allow us to prescribe Ritalin for your ADHD child, we may decide that you are an unfit parent. We may decide to take your child away.”
This mind-boggling state of affairs is fueled by teachers, principals, and school counselors, none of whom have medical training. Yet even if they did…
The very existence of the “illnesses” for which Ritalin would be prescribed is unproven. It is merely assumed.
In commenting on Dr. Lawrence Diller's book, Running on Ritalin, Dr. William Carey, Director of Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, has written, “Dr. Diller has correctly described... the disturbing trend of blaming children's social, behavioral, and academic performance problems entirely on an unproven brain deficit...”
On November 16-18, 1998, the National Institute of Mental Health held the prestigious “NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD].” The conference was explicitly aimed at ending all debate about the diagnoses of ADD, ADHD, and about the prescription of Ritalin. It was hoped that at the highest levels of medical research and bureaucracy, a clear position would be taken: this is what ADHD is, this is where it comes from, and these are the drugs it should be treated with. That didn't happen, amazingly. Instead, the official panel responsible for drawing conclusions from the conference threw cold water on the whole attempt to reach a comfortable consensus.
Panel member Mark Vonnegut, a Massachusetts pediatrician, said, “The diagnosis [of ADHD] is a mess.”
The quite conventional and orthodox panel essentially said it was not sure ADHD was even a valid diagnosis. In other words, it virtually admitted that ADD and ADHD might be nothing more than attempts to categorize certain children's behaviors---with no organic cause, no clear-cut biological basis, no provable reason for even using the ADD or ADHD labels. The panel found “no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction [which malfunction had been the whole psychiatric assumption].”
The panel found that Ritalin has not been shown to have long-term benefits. In fact, the panel stated that Ritalin has resulted in “little improvement on academic achievement or social skills.”
Panel chairman, David Kupfer, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh, said, “There is no current validated diagnostic test [for ADHD].”
Yet at every level of public education in America, there remains what can only be called a voracious desire to give children Ritalin (or other similar drugs) for so-called ADD or ADHD.
The 1994 Textbook of Psychiatry, published by the American Psychiatric Press, contains this review (Popper and Steingard): “Stimulants [such as Ritalin] do not produce lasting improvements in aggressivity, conduct disorder, criminality, education achievement, job functioning, marital relationships, or long-term adjustment.”
Parents should also wake up to the fact that, in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colorado, school-shooting tragedy, pundits and doctors began urging much more extensive “mental health” services for children. Whether you have noticed it or not, this no longer means, for the most part, therapy with a caring professional. It means drugs. Drugs like Ritalin.
In December 1996, the US Drug Enforcement Agency held a conference on ADHD and Ritalin. Surprisingly, it issued a sensible statement about drugs being a bad substitute for the presence of caring parents: “[T]he use of stimulants [such as Ritalin] for the short-term improvement of behavior and underachievement may be thwarting efforts to address the children's real issues, both on an individual and societal level. The lack of long-term positive results with the use of stimulants and the specter of previous and potential stimulant abuse epidemics, give cause to worry about the future. The dramatic increase in the use of methylphenidate [Ritalin] in the 1990s should be viewed as a marker or warning to society about the problems children are having and how we view and address them.”
In his book, Talking Back to Ritalin, Dr. Peter Breggin expands on the drug's effects: “Stimulants such as Ritalin and amphetamine... have grossly harmful impacts on the brain -- reducing overall blood flow, disturbing glucose metabolism, and possibly causing permanent shrinkage or atrophy of the brain.”
In the American press, although many articles have appeared covering “the debate” about Ritalin and ADHD, no newspaper or TV network has taken it upon itself to hammer on all the lies, day after day, month after month. That kind of campaign could turn around the whole nation on this vital subject---but of course, pharmaceutical advertising is a more powerful force.
And one should not forget that Ritalin came out of a Swiss drug giant called Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) fifty years ago. That company once had very close business ties with the infamous Nazi cartel, IG Farben. Farben stood for inhuman experiments on human beings. Read the adverse effects of Ritalin again, and consider that millions of children take those pills every day.
© 2010 Jon Rappoport - All Rights Reserved
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The Atlantic Partnership - Here Come the British Again!!!!
Atlantic Partnership- Here Come the British Again!!!!
That includes the Rothschilds which explains the Gulf and corexit (those involved are the same old
players we are used to harming this nation)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Palmerparteram/Atlantic_Partnership
User:Palmerparteram/
Document last modified July 4, 2010 - keep this fact in mind as you read this blog.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, contributed to Vatic Project by Robert DeBeero
The Atlantic Partnership is an NGO, which seeks to continue the strong influence of America in the development of the European Union, through the agency of the United Kingdom as the spokesman for American interest. This strategy represents a continuation of the policy of America towards Europe established during the Second World War and the Cold War.
The Atlantic Partnership was founded immediately after the September 11 attacks in the United States. The founding of the organization was timed to ensure that America and Europe did not drift apart as the former pursued the “War on Terror” and the latter pursued monetary and political unification and expansion. Lord Powell of Bayswater (the Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership) opines this strategy clearly in the “Aims and Objectives” section of the organization’s website; when he says
“Partnership’s role is to argue the case for setting major policy decisions in the context of their impact on transatlantic relations. That should apply as much to the way America pursues the global war against terrorism as to the European Union’s ambition to build stronger, Europe-wide institutions.”
Until the time of writing of this article, the Atlantic Partnership and its work have been widely ignored by the media and the public, however its impact since inception in 2002 has been enormous.
Atlantic Partnership People
Chairmen • Lord Powell of Bayswater - Chairman • Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • The Rt Honorable Michael Howard QC MP - President and Founding Chairman • The Honorable James P. Rubin - Vice Chairman, USA • Secretary William Cohen - Co-Chairman USA • Senator Sam Nunn - Co-Chairman USA • Pierre Lellouche - Vice Chairman, France • Ambassador Francois Bujon d’Estang - Vice Chairman, France
Patrons
• Henry Kissinger - Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. (Indicted War Criminal) • Senator John McCain - United States Senator for Arizona • General Colin L. Powell - Former United States Secretary of State • The Rt Honorable John Major CH - Former United Kingdom Prime Minister • The Rt Honorable Lord Robertson of Port Ellen - Former Secretary General of NATO • Alain Juppé • The Rt Honorable Lord Gilbert - Life Peer, House of Lords • Herr Karsten Voigt - Coordinator for German-American Cooperation • Sr. Eduardo Serra - Former Defense Minister of Spain • Senator Antonio Martino - Minister of Defense of Italy
Trustees
• The Rt Honorable Michael Howard QC MP - President and Founding Chairman • Lord Marland of Odstock - Treasurer • Lord Powell of Bayswater - Chairman • Lord Chadlington of Dean - Life Peer, House of Lords • Meg Allen - Director of DRAMLA SA, Geneva • Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Chairman, E.L. Rothschild Ltd • Sir David Manning GCMG, CVO • Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • General Brent Scowcroft - President of The Scowcroft Group
Friends of Atlantic Partnership US
• Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • John R. Drexel IV - Chairman, Sage Advisors • James Lyle - Chief Investment Officer, Millgate Capital • James P. Rubin, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs • General Brent Scowcroft - President of The Scowcroft Group • Leo M. Tilman - President, L.M.Tilman & Co. • Daniel Yergin - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Panelists
• Ed Heathcoat Amory - Political Commentator, The Daily Mail • Matthew d’Ancona - Editor, The Spectator • Ronald Asmus - Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the US in Brussels • Elle Beard - Project Manager, USA • Sr Boris Biancheri - President of ANSA (news services) • Doug Bereuter - President and CEO of The Asia Foundation • Dr. Christoph Bertram - Head of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik • Ryan Carroll - Project Manager, USA • Professor Malcolm Chalmers - University of Bradford • Patrick Chamorel - Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (VN: A tavistock funded institution) • Derek Chollet - Senior Fellow, The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) • Professor Michael Clarke - King’s College London, Director of the Council of the Royal United Services Institute • Amy Cohen - Former AP Project Manager, USA • Maggie Smith - Former Project Manager, USA • Laurent Cohen-Tanugi - Political Writer, Partner Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton • Jean de Courcel - Former Directeur-Adjoint to the Prime Minister • Jonathan Delaney - Former Project Manager, USA • Catherine Fall - Former Associate Director • Niall Ferguson - Professor of History at Harvard University • The Rt Honorable Frank Field MP - United Kingdom Member of Parliament, Labour • Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger - Foreign Editor , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • David Frum - Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute • Ulf Gartzke - Director of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in Washington • Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin - President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty • The Rt Hon Lord Gilbert - Life Peer, House of Lords • Renaud Girard - Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Le Figaro • Daniel Hamilton - Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University • Lord Howell – Conservative Front Bench spokesman House of Lords • Field Marshal The Lord Inge - Former Chief of the Defence Staff • Dr. Josef Joffe - Editor, Die Zeit • Professor Sir John Keegan - Historian and Columnist, Daily Telegraph Defence • Thomas Kielinger - London Correspondent, Die Welt • Dr. Sophie Meunier - Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University • Sir Christopher Meyer - Chairman, Press Complaints Commission. Former British Ambassador to Washington • Leo Michel - Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies • John Micklethwait - United States Editor, The Economist • Eric Mittereder - Former AP Project Manager, USA • Dominique Moisi - Director, Institute of Foreign Relations (IFRI), Paris • Nicolas de la Moriniere - Chairman and Chief Executive of ODIOT • Jean-Pierre Mulot - Directeur Delegue de la Redaction, Le Figaro • Sophie Simonard-Norman - Former Associate Director • George Osborne MP - United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Tatton • John O’Sullivan - Editor, The National Interest • Dr. John Van Oudenaren - Chief, European Division, Library of Congress • Lord Owen - Crossbench Peer, former United Kingdom Foreign Secretary • Owen Pengelly - Former Associate Director • Senator Jean-Francois Poncet - Former French Foreign Secretary • Axel Poniatowski MP - Deputy, French National Assembly • Lord Renwick - Labour Peer, former Ambassador to the United States • Sir Malcolm Rifkind - Former Foreign Secretary, Former Defence Secretary • Andrew Roberts - Author and journalist • Douglas Seay - Senior Staff Member of the Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives • Dr. Simon Serfaty - Director, Europe CSIS, Washington, DC • Radek Sikorski - Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland • Angela Stent - Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown School of Foreign Service • Jean-Daniel Tordjman - Inspecteur General des Finances • Martin Walker - Editor in Chief - UPI (Washington DC) • Professor Dr. Norbert Walter - Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank Group • Professor Dr. Werner Weidenfeld - Director of the Centre for Applied Research • Sir John Weston - Former Ambassador to NATO and to the United Nations • Dr. David R. Young - Managing Director & Founder, Oxford Analytica
Contents
1 Controversies Surrounding the Atlantic Partnership
1.1 The Connection to Diligence LLC
1.2 The Connection to the Rothschild Family
1.3 Involvement in the United States Presidential Election of 2008 and American Politics
1.4 Involvement in the British Parliamentary Election of 2009 and British Politics
1.5 Connections to personnel involved in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom
1.6 “Yachtgates”
1.6.1 “Yachtgate I: Montenegro 2006”
1.6.2 “Yachtgate 2: Corfu 2008”
1.6.3 “Yachtgate 3: Alaska & San Diego 2008”
1.7 Connection to Henry Kissinger
Controversies Surrounding the Atlantic Partnership
The Connection to Diligence LLC
Diligence LLC is a private intelligence company with a controversial history in Russia and Iraq.
The Advisory Board of Diligence LLC is chaired by Sir Michael Howard, the President and Founder of the Atlantic Partnership.
Lord Powell of Bayswater, Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership is also an advisory board member of Diligence LLC.
Ambassador Richard Burt, Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership, is also an advisory board member of Diligence LLC. Ambassador Burt is also a Managing Director of McLarty Associates. McLarty and Associates was founded by Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton. McLarty Associates then became Kissinger McLarty Associates through partnership with Kissinger Associates. Thomas F. McLarty is an advisory board member of Diligence LLC.
The Connection to the Rothschild Family
Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild became major shareholders in Diligence LLC in 2006, through their vehicle JNR, which acquired Ambassador Richard Burt’s stake in the company.
Evelyn de Rothschild is a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.
Involvement in the United States Presidential Election of 2008 and American Politics
Senator John McCain is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership. In March of 2008, Senator McCain was supported in his bid for the United States Presidency by Lord Jacob and Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/johnmccain.uselections2008
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership), changed her allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin after Hilary Clinton lost the Democratic Presidential nomination.
The Honorable James P. Rubin is an economic and political adviser to President Barrack Hussein Obama. Rubin is Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership.
Involvement in the British Parliamentary Election of 2009 and British Politics
British Chancellor George Osborne, is a Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership. Osborne, was the subject of an event referred to as “Yachtgate” involving the Rothschild Family, Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Labour Minister Peter Mandelson in 2008.
Connections to personnel involved in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Former British Prime Minister John Major, the replacement for Margaret Thatcher, was the British Prime Minister who led the country at the time of Operation Desert Storm. Major is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership.
General Colin Powell was the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff at the time of Operation Desert Storm. In 2003, Secretary of State Powell made the case for the invasion of Iraq, based on the presence of WMD’s, to the United Nations. Powell is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership.
Former British Ambassador, Sir David Manning was the author of the famous “Manning Memo” that outlined the details of a meeting between Tony Blair and George H. W. Bush in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. From 2001 to 2003, Manning was the political advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Manning is a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.
Former British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, who preceded Sir David Manning, is a Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership. Meyer was the Ambassador to the United States at the time of September 11 and was replaced with Sir David Manning when the policy to invade Iraq was executed.
[edit] “Yachtgate I: Montenegro 2006”
Senator John McCain (a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership) received the hospitality of the Oligarch Oleg Deripaska aboard Deripaska’s yacht on his seventieth birthday. Present at this celebration was Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild, who went on to host a dinner for McCain at Spencer House in London to garner British support for McCain’s Presidential bid in 2008.
[edit] “Yachtgate 2: Corfu 2008”
The Oligarch, Oleg Deripaska met Labour Minister Peter Mandelson and UK Chancellor George Osborne (Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership) at the Rothschild family villa in Corfu in the summer of 2008. At this gathering, it was reported in the press that Deripaska was pressed for funding of the Conservative Party by Osborne.
[edit] “Yachtgate 3: Alaska & San Diego 2008”
In the summer of 2008, the Republican Candidates McCain and Palin met with the Russian Oligarchs Suleiman Kerimov and Oleg Deripaska on board Kerimov’s yacht Ice at Ketchikan (Alaska) and San Diego.
Present at these meetings was Oscar Wyatt III. Wyatt was the former owner of Bayoil which partnered with Kerimov’s Nafta Moskva in the Iraq Oil for Food Scandal.
[edit] Connection to Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger has been associated with controversy since his time in the Nixon administration to the present day. Kissinger is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership. Also remember he is a bona fide war criminal.
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That includes the Rothschilds which explains the Gulf and corexit (those involved are the same old
players we are used to harming this nation)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Palmerparteram/Atlantic_Partnership
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Document last modified July 4, 2010 - keep this fact in mind as you read this blog.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, contributed to Vatic Project by Robert DeBeero
The Atlantic Partnership is an NGO, which seeks to continue the strong influence of America in the development of the European Union, through the agency of the United Kingdom as the spokesman for American interest. This strategy represents a continuation of the policy of America towards Europe established during the Second World War and the Cold War.
The Atlantic Partnership was founded immediately after the September 11 attacks in the United States. The founding of the organization was timed to ensure that America and Europe did not drift apart as the former pursued the “War on Terror” and the latter pursued monetary and political unification and expansion. Lord Powell of Bayswater (the Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership) opines this strategy clearly in the “Aims and Objectives” section of the organization’s website; when he says
“Partnership’s role is to argue the case for setting major policy decisions in the context of their impact on transatlantic relations. That should apply as much to the way America pursues the global war against terrorism as to the European Union’s ambition to build stronger, Europe-wide institutions.”
Until the time of writing of this article, the Atlantic Partnership and its work have been widely ignored by the media and the public, however its impact since inception in 2002 has been enormous.
Atlantic Partnership People
Chairmen • Lord Powell of Bayswater - Chairman • Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • The Rt Honorable Michael Howard QC MP - President and Founding Chairman • The Honorable James P. Rubin - Vice Chairman, USA • Secretary William Cohen - Co-Chairman USA • Senator Sam Nunn - Co-Chairman USA • Pierre Lellouche - Vice Chairman, France • Ambassador Francois Bujon d’Estang - Vice Chairman, France
Patrons
• Henry Kissinger - Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. (Indicted War Criminal) • Senator John McCain - United States Senator for Arizona • General Colin L. Powell - Former United States Secretary of State • The Rt Honorable John Major CH - Former United Kingdom Prime Minister • The Rt Honorable Lord Robertson of Port Ellen - Former Secretary General of NATO • Alain Juppé • The Rt Honorable Lord Gilbert - Life Peer, House of Lords • Herr Karsten Voigt - Coordinator for German-American Cooperation • Sr. Eduardo Serra - Former Defense Minister of Spain • Senator Antonio Martino - Minister of Defense of Italy
Trustees
• The Rt Honorable Michael Howard QC MP - President and Founding Chairman • Lord Marland of Odstock - Treasurer • Lord Powell of Bayswater - Chairman • Lord Chadlington of Dean - Life Peer, House of Lords • Meg Allen - Director of DRAMLA SA, Geneva • Sir Evelyn de Rothschild - Chairman, E.L. Rothschild Ltd • Sir David Manning GCMG, CVO • Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • General Brent Scowcroft - President of The Scowcroft Group
Friends of Atlantic Partnership US
• Ambassador Richard Burt - Managing Director, McLarty Associates • John R. Drexel IV - Chairman, Sage Advisors • James Lyle - Chief Investment Officer, Millgate Capital • James P. Rubin, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs • General Brent Scowcroft - President of The Scowcroft Group • Leo M. Tilman - President, L.M.Tilman & Co. • Daniel Yergin - Chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Panelists
• Ed Heathcoat Amory - Political Commentator, The Daily Mail • Matthew d’Ancona - Editor, The Spectator • Ronald Asmus - Executive Director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the US in Brussels • Elle Beard - Project Manager, USA • Sr Boris Biancheri - President of ANSA (news services) • Doug Bereuter - President and CEO of The Asia Foundation • Dr. Christoph Bertram - Head of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik • Ryan Carroll - Project Manager, USA • Professor Malcolm Chalmers - University of Bradford • Patrick Chamorel - Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (VN: A tavistock funded institution) • Derek Chollet - Senior Fellow, The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) • Professor Michael Clarke - King’s College London, Director of the Council of the Royal United Services Institute • Amy Cohen - Former AP Project Manager, USA • Maggie Smith - Former Project Manager, USA • Laurent Cohen-Tanugi - Political Writer, Partner Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton • Jean de Courcel - Former Directeur-Adjoint to the Prime Minister • Jonathan Delaney - Former Project Manager, USA • Catherine Fall - Former Associate Director • Niall Ferguson - Professor of History at Harvard University • The Rt Honorable Frank Field MP - United Kingdom Member of Parliament, Labour • Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger - Foreign Editor , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • David Frum - Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute • Ulf Gartzke - Director of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in Washington • Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin - President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty • The Rt Hon Lord Gilbert - Life Peer, House of Lords • Renaud Girard - Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Le Figaro • Daniel Hamilton - Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins University • Lord Howell – Conservative Front Bench spokesman House of Lords • Field Marshal The Lord Inge - Former Chief of the Defence Staff • Dr. Josef Joffe - Editor, Die Zeit • Professor Sir John Keegan - Historian and Columnist, Daily Telegraph Defence • Thomas Kielinger - London Correspondent, Die Welt • Dr. Sophie Meunier - Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University • Sir Christopher Meyer - Chairman, Press Complaints Commission. Former British Ambassador to Washington • Leo Michel - Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies • John Micklethwait - United States Editor, The Economist • Eric Mittereder - Former AP Project Manager, USA • Dominique Moisi - Director, Institute of Foreign Relations (IFRI), Paris • Nicolas de la Moriniere - Chairman and Chief Executive of ODIOT • Jean-Pierre Mulot - Directeur Delegue de la Redaction, Le Figaro • Sophie Simonard-Norman - Former Associate Director • George Osborne MP - United Kingdom Member of Parliament for Tatton • John O’Sullivan - Editor, The National Interest • Dr. John Van Oudenaren - Chief, European Division, Library of Congress • Lord Owen - Crossbench Peer, former United Kingdom Foreign Secretary • Owen Pengelly - Former Associate Director • Senator Jean-Francois Poncet - Former French Foreign Secretary • Axel Poniatowski MP - Deputy, French National Assembly • Lord Renwick - Labour Peer, former Ambassador to the United States • Sir Malcolm Rifkind - Former Foreign Secretary, Former Defence Secretary • Andrew Roberts - Author and journalist • Douglas Seay - Senior Staff Member of the Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives • Dr. Simon Serfaty - Director, Europe CSIS, Washington, DC • Radek Sikorski - Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland • Angela Stent - Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown School of Foreign Service • Jean-Daniel Tordjman - Inspecteur General des Finances • Martin Walker - Editor in Chief - UPI (Washington DC) • Professor Dr. Norbert Walter - Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank Group • Professor Dr. Werner Weidenfeld - Director of the Centre for Applied Research • Sir John Weston - Former Ambassador to NATO and to the United Nations • Dr. David R. Young - Managing Director & Founder, Oxford Analytica
Contents
1 Controversies Surrounding the Atlantic Partnership
1.1 The Connection to Diligence LLC
1.2 The Connection to the Rothschild Family
1.3 Involvement in the United States Presidential Election of 2008 and American Politics
1.4 Involvement in the British Parliamentary Election of 2009 and British Politics
1.5 Connections to personnel involved in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom
1.6 “Yachtgates”
1.6.1 “Yachtgate I: Montenegro 2006”
1.6.2 “Yachtgate 2: Corfu 2008”
1.6.3 “Yachtgate 3: Alaska & San Diego 2008”
1.7 Connection to Henry Kissinger
Controversies Surrounding the Atlantic Partnership
The Connection to Diligence LLC
Diligence LLC is a private intelligence company with a controversial history in Russia and Iraq.
The Advisory Board of Diligence LLC is chaired by Sir Michael Howard, the President and Founder of the Atlantic Partnership.
Lord Powell of Bayswater, Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership is also an advisory board member of Diligence LLC.
Ambassador Richard Burt, Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership, is also an advisory board member of Diligence LLC. Ambassador Burt is also a Managing Director of McLarty Associates. McLarty and Associates was founded by Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, former Chief of Staff to President Clinton. McLarty Associates then became Kissinger McLarty Associates through partnership with Kissinger Associates. Thomas F. McLarty is an advisory board member of Diligence LLC.
The Connection to the Rothschild Family
Jacob Rothschild and his son Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild became major shareholders in Diligence LLC in 2006, through their vehicle JNR, which acquired Ambassador Richard Burt’s stake in the company.
Evelyn de Rothschild is a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.
Involvement in the United States Presidential Election of 2008 and American Politics
Senator John McCain is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership. In March of 2008, Senator McCain was supported in his bid for the United States Presidency by Lord Jacob and Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/johnmccain.uselections2008
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership), changed her allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin after Hilary Clinton lost the Democratic Presidential nomination.
The Honorable James P. Rubin is an economic and political adviser to President Barrack Hussein Obama. Rubin is Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership.
Involvement in the British Parliamentary Election of 2009 and British Politics
British Chancellor George Osborne, is a Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership. Osborne, was the subject of an event referred to as “Yachtgate” involving the Rothschild Family, Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Labour Minister Peter Mandelson in 2008.
Connections to personnel involved in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Former British Prime Minister John Major, the replacement for Margaret Thatcher, was the British Prime Minister who led the country at the time of Operation Desert Storm. Major is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership.
General Colin Powell was the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff at the time of Operation Desert Storm. In 2003, Secretary of State Powell made the case for the invasion of Iraq, based on the presence of WMD’s, to the United Nations. Powell is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership.
Former British Ambassador, Sir David Manning was the author of the famous “Manning Memo” that outlined the details of a meeting between Tony Blair and George H. W. Bush in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. From 2001 to 2003, Manning was the political advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Manning is a Trustee of the Atlantic Partnership.
Former British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, who preceded Sir David Manning, is a Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership. Meyer was the Ambassador to the United States at the time of September 11 and was replaced with Sir David Manning when the policy to invade Iraq was executed.
[edit] “Yachtgate I: Montenegro 2006”
Senator John McCain (a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership) received the hospitality of the Oligarch Oleg Deripaska aboard Deripaska’s yacht on his seventieth birthday. Present at this celebration was Nathaniel “Young Nate” Rothschild, who went on to host a dinner for McCain at Spencer House in London to garner British support for McCain’s Presidential bid in 2008.
[edit] “Yachtgate 2: Corfu 2008”
The Oligarch, Oleg Deripaska met Labour Minister Peter Mandelson and UK Chancellor George Osborne (Panelist of the Atlantic Partnership) at the Rothschild family villa in Corfu in the summer of 2008. At this gathering, it was reported in the press that Deripaska was pressed for funding of the Conservative Party by Osborne.
[edit] “Yachtgate 3: Alaska & San Diego 2008”
In the summer of 2008, the Republican Candidates McCain and Palin met with the Russian Oligarchs Suleiman Kerimov and Oleg Deripaska on board Kerimov’s yacht Ice at Ketchikan (Alaska) and San Diego.
Present at these meetings was Oscar Wyatt III. Wyatt was the former owner of Bayoil which partnered with Kerimov’s Nafta Moskva in the Iraq Oil for Food Scandal.
[edit] Connection to Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger has been associated with controversy since his time in the Nixon administration to the present day. Kissinger is a Patron of the Atlantic Partnership. Also remember he is a bona fide war criminal.
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Corexit Is Killing The Gulf (Part I) & ( Part II) WMD used by BP to kill millions
Corexit Is Killing The Gulf (Part I) & (Part II) WMD used by BP to kill millions
What is obscene is we get to pay for our own murder.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fldJnaNp0
SadEarthling
May 29, 2010
Part I - WMD used by a corporation against the People of the US.
Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, is one of the most poisonous dispersants ever developed, and is up to 20 times more toxic than other dispersants, and only half as effective.
When Corexit 9500, with its 2.61 ppm toxicity level, is combined with the warm waters of the Gulf much of it will transition into a gaseous state that will be absorbed into clouds, to be released as toxic rain upon all of the Eastern United States: All without any effective or real objections from the Obama administration.
Part II - corexit the killer WMD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj2lZDEJMw&feature=related
So, what does one do when very specific and easily identified persons conduct war against you and kill you off with impunity? Do you fight back? Do you go directly to the source of the problem and deal with it??? I would suspect that is the question.
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What is obscene is we get to pay for our own murder.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fldJnaNp0
SadEarthling
May 29, 2010
Part I - WMD used by a corporation against the People of the US.
Corexit 9500, four times more toxic than crude oil, is one of the most poisonous dispersants ever developed, and is up to 20 times more toxic than other dispersants, and only half as effective.
When Corexit 9500, with its 2.61 ppm toxicity level, is combined with the warm waters of the Gulf much of it will transition into a gaseous state that will be absorbed into clouds, to be released as toxic rain upon all of the Eastern United States: All without any effective or real objections from the Obama administration.
Part II - corexit the killer WMD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzj2lZDEJMw&feature=related
So, what does one do when very specific and easily identified persons conduct war against you and kill you off with impunity? Do you fight back? Do you go directly to the source of the problem and deal with it??? I would suspect that is the question.
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UPDATE: 7/5/2010 Alert: BP, Illusion of a False Spill
UPDATE: 7/5/2010 Just found this update from the original source of this very credible story. The original story said this was a massive phoney crisis done by a "CONTROLLED" side drilling of an asphalt volcano which allows a totally controlled release of the tar from the volcano on the gulf floor. This was from insider information and not speculation, here is his continuing reseach and followup on it.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION, SINCE THE COREXIT becomes the reason for the crisis, so it can be used as the "solution" which then feeds their agenda of evacuating the gulf. Remember, the only way to gain cooperation of hundreds of thousands of people if not millions is FEAR, AND MORE FEAR AND GREATER FEAR. I just read they are getting the old mobile homes in the camps from Katrina, ready to receive the residents of the gulf. Is this a LAND GRAB among other agendas???
RESORTS, HIGH PRICED WATER FRONT CONDOS, ETC? (I suggest you refresh your memory and read the original story below). This is the only thing that would explain the massive lock down on information going on as of yesterday criminalizing taking pictures of the tar balls from that volcano. They have this thing completely under control. Here is his update.
"While volcanism is common under the sea, nobody dreamed that in some places, vents erupt not lava but asphalt. (VN: Notice the tar balls on the beaches in the pics we have seen, is that why the criminal felony for taking pictures?) That's what a 2003 research expedition found in the Gulf of Mexico on a seafloor hill the scientists named Chapopote, the Mexican Spanish name for tar. It's the world's first known asphalt volcano. There are more being found all the time.
The researchers, a team led by Ian MacDonald of Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus, dangled a remote-controlled camera off the German ship RV Sonne to the seafloor far below. Even with this short-range visual instrument they documented one square kilometer of tar flows, some of them 20 meters across.
Besides asphalt, the expedition found places soaked with petroleum and others with cold, white layers of methane hydrate. Like cold seeps elsewhere on the world's seafloor, all of these localities supported colonies of chemical-eating organisms. (VN: is this why no concern exhibited on the part of BP and Obama? Its a self cleaning release based on the oil eating bacteria?)
http://watchermeetup.50.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5654
Another article about the governments lack of enthusiasm when it comes to any kind of clean up.
If one was a cynic than you would believe that the complete inaction on the part of this adminstration was purposeful and used in an effort to perhaps ram through their agenda. A crisis was created, its almost as if it is deliberately not being fixed, clear options on the table are not being used and one can only wonder why!
Senator Lemieux spoke with President Obama and the exchange between the two over the 2,000 skimmers in the US currently going unused to clean up this massive oil spill will blow your mind!
Senator Lemieux says, “I think it is outrageous that we only have 20 skimmers off the coast of Florida. There are 2000 skimmers in the United States and we haven’t even asked as a federal government for those skimmers to come into the gulf….the federal government who wants to take over every other aspect of our life can’t get this one thing right…”
President Obama’s response about the skimmers not being used was, “We can’t take these skimmers from other places in the country because they might have an oil spill!” What?!?
The exchange continues… http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/06/22/over-2000-skimmers-available-in-us-that-obama-refuses-to-use/
Corexit is working - Louisiana residents beginning to report oil-spill related illnesses
Two months since the start of the Gulf Coast oil spill, residents, fishermen and experts throughout the Gulf of Mexico are reporting respiratory problems and other illnesses attributable to oil contamination.
"We’re getting sick down here. People are losing their voices; our noses are running and our eyes are crying all the time," said Dean Blanchard, operator of a Grand Isle, Louisiana-based shrimp distribution company. "I went down to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and the urine on the cement smelled better than the air does down here."
Dr. Michael Kotler, director of Plaquemines Medical Center near Venice, Louisiana, said his clinic has treated numerous cases of people getting sick from spill-related chemical exposure. The clinic handles those cases that the US Health Service and a private medical contractor employed by BP are not prepared to handle, said Dr. Kotler.
Wilma Subra, an environmental chemist in and advisor for the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, said that the health effects of the oil spill are only beginning to be felt.
"The crude oil on the surface formed an aerosol that blew onto land a long time before the slick even made it to the marshes, covering the entire New Orleans area last month," she said in a telephone interview. "As the slick goes west, the impact area is shifting all the way over into Pensacola, and even farther." http://uruknet.com/?p=m67251&hd=&size=1&l=e
Vatic Note: IF TRUE, this is criminal and serious. Wait til you read what they are saying BP did. This is one we can't sit by and pretend it didn't happen or the next one will be worse. Read this check back periodically as we will be following this one closely. This does not require much from me as its really self explanatory, but if he succeeds in gaining access, then we may well have a criminal case on our hands.
Its also the biggest scam ever perpetrated on anyone ever in recorded history. I just keep remembering how that video with the laser beams in it got gutted once Tru Ott posted it and we picked it up for further distribution. They are hiding so much that it will be impossible to keep the lid on as its beginning to blow.
BP, Illusion of a False Spill
http://shtf411.com/bp-illusion-of-a-false-spill-t7065.html-sid=75f49d984d7e8acccaec5214bb60fbfa
by Shtf411, provided to Vatic by Randa, Florida, USA
Sun Jun 20, 2010
*UPDATE* "Site owner, I appear to be unable to gain access to update my original post. Could you please update it for me, to read as follows: I am requesting, and gathering more intel. I hope to be able to post next week something much more substantial, "a smoking gun" of sorts, that should provide more information, a better direction for those people living in the coastal areas, and those worried for their children's future."
The 'disaster' in the Gulf of Mexico is beyond a false flag; it's an illusion. What I'm about to reveal will more than likely go by the wayside, and the charade will continue. The reason for writing this is not for attention, games, or folly, but to expose the biggest scam in the 21st century, and to relieve some aching hearts. There is no need for fear as this is a staged event. I cannot reveal my sources, they do go straight to the top, but hopefully what I write will echo inside of each person reading this as the truth.
Much of the information I present here cannot be easily verified, fast checked, or ever presented as anything, but hearsay, as they are just words of an anonymous online entity. The Government, corporations, and the people behind them have pulled out all the stops to insure the truth doesn't come out. They are the reason why the beaches have private security contractors, insuring no one is able to gain access to the oil on shore.
They are the reason the Gulf of Mexico is a no fly zone. They are the reason why the gulf states are being locked down by military. They are the reason why the well head you see is different in many videos that BP releases. Without this measure of control the illusion would fail. In this post, what I can do is provide leading evidence, or give clues to the truth; from there you can use something that has gone by the way side, common sense.
The large oil spills washing up on the shores are not from BP Deep Horizon. They are indeed from surrounding wells, that were already leaking by design. These wells can be verified through a simple online search. You'll notice that much of the oil is actually in the form of tar. Usually tar balls; sizes of these have reached 2000+ pounds.
From the start, BP, Haliburton, and co-conspirators knew where they were drilling. Using specific equipment, such as the German ship RV Sonne, they had detailed maps of the ocean bottom. The ship, and a specific college study from 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico, are your starting points to what's really happening in the gulf. Here's a link to what the study synopses.
What BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators intentionally drilled into was an Asphalt Volcano. Sounds scary doesn't it? It really is not. In fact, after you read the above link you'll know that the Gulf of Mexico is literally coated in oil, tar, and methane hydrate at the bottom. The study went on to find that massive aquatic life has specifically adapted to living off of the hydrocarbons. That in fact these asphalt volcanoes are a natural part of the ocean ecology, and their eruptions actually benefit the sea life over the long duration of time.
Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano. Basically from what I understand, it is a soda bottle effect. If they had drilled into the top of the volcano, then all the gas would rise out, and explode as would bottled carbonated liquid. The effect of drilling into the side permits a safely controlled release of gas, tar, liquified asphalt, and other related gases. What was done is a more or less controlled release; almost natural in fact!
The Asphalt volcano was a win win situation for this false flag: as it presented the best illusion to all outside parties. Not only do the conspirators need to fool the general public, but also the oil industry, and scientific community. The public is easy to fool, but the latter two groups take a little more effort; this is the main reason why the Gulf is being isolated by security contractors, and military. Anyone well versed on this giant debacle in the Gulf knows that it is surrounded with stories, and claims of negligence. This was the first purposeful aspect to make the story seem credible to all outside parties; as the story is more easily believed, when it is chalked up to human error, or incompetence.
Besides using inferior, shotty, or flat out negligent craftsmanship, as the well was intended to fail from the onset, the conspirators knew that the pressure produced from the volcano would blow out even better equipment. This was the second mechanism to fool other industry experts. All experts, and scientific communities only know what they are told, and that is the well tapped into a large high pressure hydrocarbon pocket. To even a trained eye, what they are being told appears to be a massive oil gusher, when in fact it's a controlled event.
In watching the videos, or live feeds looks horrible, and very ominous, but upon closer examination the tell tale signs of what it really is shows through, what you are actually viewing is a man made(well bore) large "Black Smoker". You should take note, as the evidence has built, the live feed appears to have been tampered with. I suspect it is because of the video below. The man narrating the video has it correct, it is a volcano! But those aren't flames. From the link provided above, they are a combination of gases; specifically Sulfur, and Iron are what create the flame effect. Since the airing of that video, several of the live feeds have been proven to be tampered footage, or faked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Den9CoYb0OHs
You need to realize that an illusion is only as good as it's weakest link. All scientific evidence on paper coming from the government, and corporations is being fudged. In the case of this staged, and controlled event that weak link is the oil, or more specifically the tangible tar that can be collected. As I mentioned much of the oil that has been seen, or noticed is tar rather than heavy crude oil. Out at sea closest to the Deep Horizon site, "shrimpers" have been hired to boom the oil/tar together, and set it ablaze. There are several huge fires right now out in the Gulf. The reason is for this is to hide the evidence. The distinct asphalt volcano tar, is actually coated with naturally produced oil eating microbes, and other natural safe guards produced by Mother Earth; these types of organisms are not present in a regular oil well, but commonly in the Asphalt Volcanoes, and large tar flows at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
To continue with why the asphalt volcano was a win win to drill into, is the heaviness of the tar. Read the linked article provided above, the tar will cling to lighter oil, and fall to the bottom of the Gulf at some point, near in the future. Also, the microbes, and other organisms that naturally occur from this will multiply. They will not only eat the tar, but the other control released oil that they are pumping into the Gulf.
We've all seen the videos of beaches not lined so much with oil, but with tar balls of varying sizes. Also, we've all noticed BP's overall lack of concern for cleanup. We've seen booms which aren't tied together. We've heard first hand account of staged clean ups on the beaches. As soon as a press conference, or media event is done BP stops work. The reason is simple, it's not that they don't care, but that they already know what's gonna happen. The oil will start naturally being cleaned up via decomposition, oil eating organisms, and falling to the already naturally tar covered bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
What's the benefit of this scam? MONEY, and population control. Read this article http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/18/gulf- ... ized-plan/ If you're still reading this article, and even beginning to grasp the sinister nature of the fraud being perpetrated, then you'll realize that the corexit9500, and other dispersant's are not needed. They are purposely being sprayed by Evergreen Air/CIA to cull the population along the Gulf Coast.
Also, explained to me, is the large amount of useless eaters, pond scum, or undesirables living along the gulf coast. These would be the Americans living off of the government. I will not beat around the bush with pleasantries, or politically correct statements here. This coastal area from Texas to Florida has the highest, or most dense population of targets of illimination by the US Govt., and corporations. These are the populations living on welfare(in this area dominated by African Americans), and the older population living on Social Security(mainly Florida). These people are going to start dropping like flies over the next few years, and greatly reduce the burden to government coffers.
In this respect this is a doomsday event, but it's not the end of the food chain, death of the oceans, or as some have warned an extinction level event. It's only bad for the targeted populations.
To cover the money aspects of this fraudulent event, are somewhat self evident. Primarily, as President Obama (note he's not very worried, think about it) has just pointed out, they are using this false flag to move forward with the Carbon Tax, followed by Cap, and Trade. Another aspect of profit is the clean up of this disaster; those boats aren't running around for free in the Gulf. From there, is the very real aspect of banks calling their notes on the remaining mortgaged properties along the Gulf, and peninsula of Florida. Remember Katrina? They never gave the land back, but sold it to casinos, and other businesses. Almost all beach front property will end up in the hands of the banks, and government. They'll play this disaster off for a few years, and explain the mysterious disappearance of oil on kindness from mother nature.
The side effects of this scam are negligible; in the eyes of the perpetrators, they've done nature a favor. They've opened up an asphalt volcano from the side, and will shut it down in the next few months by equalizing the pressure. The equalization of pressure will come by way of the two relief wells; which are not wells, but vents. when they do this, I have no clue what excuse they'll use, but the current gusher will stop. I said stop, it will not slow down, but literally stop. Remember, all they have done is aided nature in something that is a very common, and naturally occurring event at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
That's about all I have to say. I will pop in to answer any if at all questions. The reason I came forward with this information is that I myself was worried about the level of this event. Honestly, knowing the reasoning of what, why, and how has given me peace. Anyone who has family anywhere near where they are spraying these chemicals need to alert their family to leave; they are the target of this false flag. To anyone who finds credence, or a shred of truth in what I've written, please pass this on; as we all are the target on the grand scale. The target by way of the coming carbon tax, cap, and trade.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION, SINCE THE COREXIT becomes the reason for the crisis, so it can be used as the "solution" which then feeds their agenda of evacuating the gulf. Remember, the only way to gain cooperation of hundreds of thousands of people if not millions is FEAR, AND MORE FEAR AND GREATER FEAR. I just read they are getting the old mobile homes in the camps from Katrina, ready to receive the residents of the gulf. Is this a LAND GRAB among other agendas???
RESORTS, HIGH PRICED WATER FRONT CONDOS, ETC? (I suggest you refresh your memory and read the original story below). This is the only thing that would explain the massive lock down on information going on as of yesterday criminalizing taking pictures of the tar balls from that volcano. They have this thing completely under control. Here is his update.
"While volcanism is common under the sea, nobody dreamed that in some places, vents erupt not lava but asphalt. (VN: Notice the tar balls on the beaches in the pics we have seen, is that why the criminal felony for taking pictures?) That's what a 2003 research expedition found in the Gulf of Mexico on a seafloor hill the scientists named Chapopote, the Mexican Spanish name for tar. It's the world's first known asphalt volcano. There are more being found all the time.
The researchers, a team led by Ian MacDonald of Texas A&M University's Corpus Christi campus, dangled a remote-controlled camera off the German ship RV Sonne to the seafloor far below. Even with this short-range visual instrument they documented one square kilometer of tar flows, some of them 20 meters across.
Besides asphalt, the expedition found places soaked with petroleum and others with cold, white layers of methane hydrate. Like cold seeps elsewhere on the world's seafloor, all of these localities supported colonies of chemical-eating organisms. (VN: is this why no concern exhibited on the part of BP and Obama? Its a self cleaning release based on the oil eating bacteria?)
http://watchermeetup.50.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5654
Another article about the governments lack of enthusiasm when it comes to any kind of clean up.
If one was a cynic than you would believe that the complete inaction on the part of this adminstration was purposeful and used in an effort to perhaps ram through their agenda. A crisis was created, its almost as if it is deliberately not being fixed, clear options on the table are not being used and one can only wonder why!
Senator Lemieux spoke with President Obama and the exchange between the two over the 2,000 skimmers in the US currently going unused to clean up this massive oil spill will blow your mind!
Senator Lemieux says, “I think it is outrageous that we only have 20 skimmers off the coast of Florida. There are 2000 skimmers in the United States and we haven’t even asked as a federal government for those skimmers to come into the gulf….the federal government who wants to take over every other aspect of our life can’t get this one thing right…”
President Obama’s response about the skimmers not being used was, “We can’t take these skimmers from other places in the country because they might have an oil spill!” What?!?
The exchange continues… http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/06/22/over-2000-skimmers-available-in-us-that-obama-refuses-to-use/
Corexit is working - Louisiana residents beginning to report oil-spill related illnesses
Two months since the start of the Gulf Coast oil spill, residents, fishermen and experts throughout the Gulf of Mexico are reporting respiratory problems and other illnesses attributable to oil contamination.
"We’re getting sick down here. People are losing their voices; our noses are running and our eyes are crying all the time," said Dean Blanchard, operator of a Grand Isle, Louisiana-based shrimp distribution company. "I went down to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and the urine on the cement smelled better than the air does down here."
Dr. Michael Kotler, director of Plaquemines Medical Center near Venice, Louisiana, said his clinic has treated numerous cases of people getting sick from spill-related chemical exposure. The clinic handles those cases that the US Health Service and a private medical contractor employed by BP are not prepared to handle, said Dr. Kotler.
Wilma Subra, an environmental chemist in and advisor for the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, said that the health effects of the oil spill are only beginning to be felt.
"The crude oil on the surface formed an aerosol that blew onto land a long time before the slick even made it to the marshes, covering the entire New Orleans area last month," she said in a telephone interview. "As the slick goes west, the impact area is shifting all the way over into Pensacola, and even farther." http://uruknet.com/?p=m67251&hd=&size=1&l=e
Vatic Note: IF TRUE, this is criminal and serious. Wait til you read what they are saying BP did. This is one we can't sit by and pretend it didn't happen or the next one will be worse. Read this check back periodically as we will be following this one closely. This does not require much from me as its really self explanatory, but if he succeeds in gaining access, then we may well have a criminal case on our hands.
Its also the biggest scam ever perpetrated on anyone ever in recorded history. I just keep remembering how that video with the laser beams in it got gutted once Tru Ott posted it and we picked it up for further distribution. They are hiding so much that it will be impossible to keep the lid on as its beginning to blow.
BP, Illusion of a False Spill
http://shtf411.com/bp-illusion-of-a-false-spill-t7065.html-sid=75f49d984d7e8acccaec5214bb60fbfa
by Shtf411, provided to Vatic by Randa, Florida, USA
Sun Jun 20, 2010
*UPDATE* "Site owner, I appear to be unable to gain access to update my original post. Could you please update it for me, to read as follows: I am requesting, and gathering more intel. I hope to be able to post next week something much more substantial, "a smoking gun" of sorts, that should provide more information, a better direction for those people living in the coastal areas, and those worried for their children's future."
The 'disaster' in the Gulf of Mexico is beyond a false flag; it's an illusion. What I'm about to reveal will more than likely go by the wayside, and the charade will continue. The reason for writing this is not for attention, games, or folly, but to expose the biggest scam in the 21st century, and to relieve some aching hearts. There is no need for fear as this is a staged event. I cannot reveal my sources, they do go straight to the top, but hopefully what I write will echo inside of each person reading this as the truth.
Much of the information I present here cannot be easily verified, fast checked, or ever presented as anything, but hearsay, as they are just words of an anonymous online entity. The Government, corporations, and the people behind them have pulled out all the stops to insure the truth doesn't come out. They are the reason why the beaches have private security contractors, insuring no one is able to gain access to the oil on shore.
They are the reason the Gulf of Mexico is a no fly zone. They are the reason why the gulf states are being locked down by military. They are the reason why the well head you see is different in many videos that BP releases. Without this measure of control the illusion would fail. In this post, what I can do is provide leading evidence, or give clues to the truth; from there you can use something that has gone by the way side, common sense.
The large oil spills washing up on the shores are not from BP Deep Horizon. They are indeed from surrounding wells, that were already leaking by design. These wells can be verified through a simple online search. You'll notice that much of the oil is actually in the form of tar. Usually tar balls; sizes of these have reached 2000+ pounds.
From the start, BP, Haliburton, and co-conspirators knew where they were drilling. Using specific equipment, such as the German ship RV Sonne, they had detailed maps of the ocean bottom. The ship, and a specific college study from 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico, are your starting points to what's really happening in the gulf. Here's a link to what the study synopses.
What BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators intentionally drilled into was an Asphalt Volcano. Sounds scary doesn't it? It really is not. In fact, after you read the above link you'll know that the Gulf of Mexico is literally coated in oil, tar, and methane hydrate at the bottom. The study went on to find that massive aquatic life has specifically adapted to living off of the hydrocarbons. That in fact these asphalt volcanoes are a natural part of the ocean ecology, and their eruptions actually benefit the sea life over the long duration of time.
Another aspect to what I was directly told is that BP, Haliburton, and other co-conspirators drilled intentionally into the 'mid side' of this particular asphalt volcano. Basically from what I understand, it is a soda bottle effect. If they had drilled into the top of the volcano, then all the gas would rise out, and explode as would bottled carbonated liquid. The effect of drilling into the side permits a safely controlled release of gas, tar, liquified asphalt, and other related gases. What was done is a more or less controlled release; almost natural in fact!
The Asphalt volcano was a win win situation for this false flag: as it presented the best illusion to all outside parties. Not only do the conspirators need to fool the general public, but also the oil industry, and scientific community. The public is easy to fool, but the latter two groups take a little more effort; this is the main reason why the Gulf is being isolated by security contractors, and military. Anyone well versed on this giant debacle in the Gulf knows that it is surrounded with stories, and claims of negligence. This was the first purposeful aspect to make the story seem credible to all outside parties; as the story is more easily believed, when it is chalked up to human error, or incompetence.
Besides using inferior, shotty, or flat out negligent craftsmanship, as the well was intended to fail from the onset, the conspirators knew that the pressure produced from the volcano would blow out even better equipment. This was the second mechanism to fool other industry experts. All experts, and scientific communities only know what they are told, and that is the well tapped into a large high pressure hydrocarbon pocket. To even a trained eye, what they are being told appears to be a massive oil gusher, when in fact it's a controlled event.
In watching the videos, or live feeds looks horrible, and very ominous, but upon closer examination the tell tale signs of what it really is shows through, what you are actually viewing is a man made(well bore) large "Black Smoker". You should take note, as the evidence has built, the live feed appears to have been tampered with. I suspect it is because of the video below. The man narrating the video has it correct, it is a volcano! But those aren't flames. From the link provided above, they are a combination of gases; specifically Sulfur, and Iron are what create the flame effect. Since the airing of that video, several of the live feeds have been proven to be tampered footage, or faked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Den9CoYb0OHs
You need to realize that an illusion is only as good as it's weakest link. All scientific evidence on paper coming from the government, and corporations is being fudged. In the case of this staged, and controlled event that weak link is the oil, or more specifically the tangible tar that can be collected. As I mentioned much of the oil that has been seen, or noticed is tar rather than heavy crude oil. Out at sea closest to the Deep Horizon site, "shrimpers" have been hired to boom the oil/tar together, and set it ablaze. There are several huge fires right now out in the Gulf. The reason is for this is to hide the evidence. The distinct asphalt volcano tar, is actually coated with naturally produced oil eating microbes, and other natural safe guards produced by Mother Earth; these types of organisms are not present in a regular oil well, but commonly in the Asphalt Volcanoes, and large tar flows at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
To continue with why the asphalt volcano was a win win to drill into, is the heaviness of the tar. Read the linked article provided above, the tar will cling to lighter oil, and fall to the bottom of the Gulf at some point, near in the future. Also, the microbes, and other organisms that naturally occur from this will multiply. They will not only eat the tar, but the other control released oil that they are pumping into the Gulf.
We've all seen the videos of beaches not lined so much with oil, but with tar balls of varying sizes. Also, we've all noticed BP's overall lack of concern for cleanup. We've seen booms which aren't tied together. We've heard first hand account of staged clean ups on the beaches. As soon as a press conference, or media event is done BP stops work. The reason is simple, it's not that they don't care, but that they already know what's gonna happen. The oil will start naturally being cleaned up via decomposition, oil eating organisms, and falling to the already naturally tar covered bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
What's the benefit of this scam? MONEY, and population control. Read this article http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/18/gulf- ... ized-plan/ If you're still reading this article, and even beginning to grasp the sinister nature of the fraud being perpetrated, then you'll realize that the corexit9500, and other dispersant's are not needed. They are purposely being sprayed by Evergreen Air/CIA to cull the population along the Gulf Coast.
Also, explained to me, is the large amount of useless eaters, pond scum, or undesirables living along the gulf coast. These would be the Americans living off of the government. I will not beat around the bush with pleasantries, or politically correct statements here. This coastal area from Texas to Florida has the highest, or most dense population of targets of illimination by the US Govt., and corporations. These are the populations living on welfare(in this area dominated by African Americans), and the older population living on Social Security(mainly Florida). These people are going to start dropping like flies over the next few years, and greatly reduce the burden to government coffers.
In this respect this is a doomsday event, but it's not the end of the food chain, death of the oceans, or as some have warned an extinction level event. It's only bad for the targeted populations.
To cover the money aspects of this fraudulent event, are somewhat self evident. Primarily, as President Obama (note he's not very worried, think about it) has just pointed out, they are using this false flag to move forward with the Carbon Tax, followed by Cap, and Trade. Another aspect of profit is the clean up of this disaster; those boats aren't running around for free in the Gulf. From there, is the very real aspect of banks calling their notes on the remaining mortgaged properties along the Gulf, and peninsula of Florida. Remember Katrina? They never gave the land back, but sold it to casinos, and other businesses. Almost all beach front property will end up in the hands of the banks, and government. They'll play this disaster off for a few years, and explain the mysterious disappearance of oil on kindness from mother nature.
The side effects of this scam are negligible; in the eyes of the perpetrators, they've done nature a favor. They've opened up an asphalt volcano from the side, and will shut it down in the next few months by equalizing the pressure. The equalization of pressure will come by way of the two relief wells; which are not wells, but vents. when they do this, I have no clue what excuse they'll use, but the current gusher will stop. I said stop, it will not slow down, but literally stop. Remember, all they have done is aided nature in something that is a very common, and naturally occurring event at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
That's about all I have to say. I will pop in to answer any if at all questions. The reason I came forward with this information is that I myself was worried about the level of this event. Honestly, knowing the reasoning of what, why, and how has given me peace. Anyone who has family anywhere near where they are spraying these chemicals need to alert their family to leave; they are the target of this false flag. To anyone who finds credence, or a shred of truth in what I've written, please pass this on; as we all are the target on the grand scale. The target by way of the coming carbon tax, cap, and trade.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
State of Texas Deploys Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System (RFID/GPS)
Vatic Note: Well, what a great sounding write up. What a marvelous thoughtful thing for him to do in such a timely fashion and in such a coincidental manner. The Government is going to take care of you and do it for idealistic reasons. Just look at the efficiency and the cleverness of it all. We resisted the drivers license, so now we would voluntarily RFID ourselves, wear a wrist band, and they can then GPS us at will. We are so lucky they thought of all this and prepared so far in advance and found themselves ready "coincidentally" at the same time just such an event showed up. How lucky we are. lol
The same government in Texas that fought tooth and Nail to confiscate privately owned land and build the Global Fasicsts Super Highway for the New World order's regional connection between countries, that would no longer be sovereign countries. I just keep remembering that all three major catastrophes in this nation over the past 10 years were all manmade intentional false flags. That is how much our leaders love the people, Yes, I trust my government and its corporate owners, uh huh, yes I do. Yeah, right! Evacuation? Why? Texas?? Perry? Right. Its because he loves you. LOL
State of Texas Deploys Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System
http://www.motorola.com/governmentandenterprise/contentdir/en_US/Files/CaseStudies/SNETSCaseStudy.pdf
Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australila (thank you gypsy once again)
“We live in a 72 hour world, from decision to evacuation. By 36 hours, we want departure hubs set up, personnel trained, links made, equipment ready, and transportation deployed. With TX SNETS, we control the event, the event does not control us.”
- Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency Management
Situation: Improve mass evacuation procedures
When more than one million people evacuated from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and more than 2.7 million people fled from Hurricane Rita the following month, evacuation routes were gridlocked, fuel supplies drained and shelters overwhelmed. Thousands of families were separated and hundreds of pets lost
or left behind. The lessons learned from these catastrophic events reshaped the way the State of Texas approached mass evacuation and amplified the need to better assist and track special needs individuals throughout the process.
State of Texas Deploys Special Needs
Solution: Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System (TX SNETS)
In response to the recommendations of a state-appointed special task force, the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) reached out to the private sector. An AT&T-led group of technology providers including Motorola, (VN: No, who would have imagined? Turning it over to the corporate owners of the state government, great idea and eliminate the middle man, here comes the big word RFID, you knew it was coming, lol ) Radiant RFID and Retriever Software, worked together to create an automated evacuee tracking system. Called TX SNETS, the system integrates Motorola handheld computers (VN: Walmart uses them with counting their inventory of assets, indeed, just like we are) with Geographic Information System (GIS) databases (VN: Is that like GPS?) with status and tracking displays, tracking software, barcode wristbands and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners, and commercial coaches and school buses equipped with mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) units.
Results: Simple process that registers 12,000 evacuees and pets per hour (VN: and with permanent records remaining after the crisis is over)
Wristbands are scanned as evacuees board GPS-equipped buses and again upon arrival at the sheltering destination, (VN: Is that like FEMA camps?) updating the information at each point and sending the data wirelessly to a centralized database maintained by the University of Texas Center for Space Research.
The TX SNETS solution allows the state to monitor the evacuees’ status, keep family members and pets together, and provide information to loved ones at each stage in the evacuation process. Improving the evacuation process through integrated technology.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States, approximately 475,000 evacuees fled
to Texas. More than 126,000 had no identification, 9,000 were special needs individuals, and 2,000
children under eighteen were unaccompanied by an adult. “It was a major relief operation,” recalls Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM).
The GDEM invited Motorola (VN: check out their board of directors, JP Morgan, Chase, etc, they love us too since we are their cattle/assets) and other private sector technology providers to develop an effective, secure solution that would help the state evacuate and track special needs individuals quickly, efficiently and safely. With special needs redefined as anyone who could not self-evacuate for any reason, the numbers of potential evacuees increased dramatically, adding layers of complexity to the challenge. A rapid
registration process and a secure method of tracking each evacuee, as well as their pets, wheelchairs, walkers, and other necessities, throughout the entire evacuation process was critical. (VN: If we assume Depopulation and Eugenics are a consideration here, then those special needs people will be in serious jeopardy just like in Katrina).
Motorola partnered with Retriever Software (VN: A Geneva board member, Rothschilds BIS bank is there) and Radiant RFID (VN: check out this board chairman, its interesting, this is an international effort here, but this one is a texas company with a very interesting chairman) to create an integrated technology solution using Radiant RFID’s customized bar-coded RFID wristbands and RFID portals, Retriever’s tracking application software, and Motorola’s rugged MC9094 handheld computers.
“We worked with about 58 private groups to make this system happen and those groups were essential
to developing answers that work in the real world,” Chief Colley says. “For example, Motorola gives us
great support from border security to evacuations. They are there when we need them most. We’re
dealing with life and death, not proficiency issues, so the technology has to work, it cannot fail.”
Smooth efficient registration process
The process is simple. Upon arrival at a designated evacuation center, National Guardsmen collect and
enter each family’s information into the tracking system using a laptop computer or a MC9094 handheld wireless computer. A rugged device designed for the most demanding, high stress field environment, the MC9094 provides emergency personnel with true mobility, enabling them to register evacuees on-site at the evacuation hub. Data input errors are reduced by a user-friendly software application with a standard template. And the rapid deployment of over 500 handheld mobile computers meant that the equipment would be there when it was needed.
“The contributions made by the Motorola team were nothing less than spectacular,” says Cynthia Rubio,
president of Radiant RFID. “Product knowledge, responsiveness and perseverance were huge factors
that contributed to the successful deployment of this system.”
Keeping family and pets together and loved ones informed. After the data is collected, each family member
is given an RFID wristband with a serial number that matches the record in the database. Pets and physical or medical equipment are given corresponding tags. The information is wirelessly transmitted to the master database housed at the University of Texas Center for Space Research in Austin. (VN: A Carnegie Foundation recipient, we know about this foundation, as well as massive grants from the government and they will house the master data base.... yessiree)
“The scale of mass evacuation demands a new approach to command control and the creation of a
system that registers evacuees in real-time at their departure points,” says Dr. Gordon Wells, Program
Manager, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin. “One of our jobs (at the Center) is to
track the location, capacity and current occupancy of the evacuation shelters. So tracking the location of
the evacuees as they move through the process and monitoring bus locations through GPS technology
was a natural activity we could expand on.”
Tracking enabled by wireless devices (VN: your going to really love this one. If you know anything about shipping cattle or assets, then words like "manifest" will definitely ring a bell, branding would be about the same thing.)
National Guardsmen also use the Motorola handheld computers to scan the wristbands as evacuees
board buses for transport to the shelters. Before departure, the Guardsmen print out a manifest for
the driver to help account for each evacuee after fuel stops and comfort station breaks. Buses are equipped with GPS units, enabling the Center for Space Research to track and report their locations and speeds every 30 seconds. (VN: now that is control, every 30 seconds when you have valuable cargo like that)
Upon arrival at the shelter, evacuees either walk through an RFID portal or their wristbands are manually scanned, updating their status and transmitting the information to the master database. A printed manifest is then provided to the shelter host. TX SNETS keeps evacuees, their pets, and their medical necessities together and allows family members to contact the Texas 2-1-1 information and referral service to track evacuees’ status and current location. (VN: you read this and you just feel so good about how much they care about you, don't you?)
“Time is the enemy,” says Chief Colley. “You have to help people very quickly. TX SNETS is a very simple process and it works. Taking care of our citizens first and foremost."
By the time Hurricane Dean threatened the Texas coast in August of 2007, the state was ready and waiting
with TX SNETS securely in place and poised to evacuate 150,000 people on 3,000 buses.
“When you’re dealing with people, not just assets, there is a moral responsibility to get it right,” says Sheila
Donnelly, president, Retriever Software. “When the system is allowed to proceed as planned and exercised
by Emergency Operations, the information is moved efficiently and accurately and the level of confidence
and calmness increases.”
For the state, TX SNETS provides a smooth, efficient process of effectively allocating search and rescue
resources for those who for any reason cannot self-evacuate. For evacuees, it means no longer having to
worry about losing a child in the chaos, leaving behind a pet, or being separated from critical special-needs
devices. For loved ones, it means keeping tabs on family members. And for all, it controls the turmoil and
reduces the extreme stress of a mass evacuation.
“We live in a world now where catastrophic events occur, whether man-made or natural,” says Chief Colley.
“Our priority is to take care of our citizens first and foremost, and in the 21st century we should be able to do
that. We had great support from the private sector and Motorola was one of them in a big way.”
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
The same government in Texas that fought tooth and Nail to confiscate privately owned land and build the Global Fasicsts Super Highway for the New World order's regional connection between countries, that would no longer be sovereign countries. I just keep remembering that all three major catastrophes in this nation over the past 10 years were all manmade intentional false flags. That is how much our leaders love the people, Yes, I trust my government and its corporate owners, uh huh, yes I do. Yeah, right! Evacuation? Why? Texas?? Perry? Right. Its because he loves you. LOL
State of Texas Deploys Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System
http://www.motorola.com/governmentandenterprise/contentdir/en_US/Files/CaseStudies/SNETSCaseStudy.pdf
Provided to Vatic Project by Gypsy, Australila (thank you gypsy once again)
“We live in a 72 hour world, from decision to evacuation. By 36 hours, we want departure hubs set up, personnel trained, links made, equipment ready, and transportation deployed. With TX SNETS, we control the event, the event does not control us.”
- Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency Management
Situation: Improve mass evacuation procedures
When more than one million people evacuated from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and more than 2.7 million people fled from Hurricane Rita the following month, evacuation routes were gridlocked, fuel supplies drained and shelters overwhelmed. Thousands of families were separated and hundreds of pets lost
or left behind. The lessons learned from these catastrophic events reshaped the way the State of Texas approached mass evacuation and amplified the need to better assist and track special needs individuals throughout the process.
State of Texas Deploys Special Needs
Solution: Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System (TX SNETS)
In response to the recommendations of a state-appointed special task force, the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) reached out to the private sector. An AT&T-led group of technology providers including Motorola, (VN: No, who would have imagined? Turning it over to the corporate owners of the state government, great idea and eliminate the middle man, here comes the big word RFID, you knew it was coming, lol ) Radiant RFID and Retriever Software, worked together to create an automated evacuee tracking system. Called TX SNETS, the system integrates Motorola handheld computers (VN: Walmart uses them with counting their inventory of assets, indeed, just like we are) with Geographic Information System (GIS) databases (VN: Is that like GPS?) with status and tracking displays, tracking software, barcode wristbands and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners, and commercial coaches and school buses equipped with mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) units.
Results: Simple process that registers 12,000 evacuees and pets per hour (VN: and with permanent records remaining after the crisis is over)
Wristbands are scanned as evacuees board GPS-equipped buses and again upon arrival at the sheltering destination, (VN: Is that like FEMA camps?) updating the information at each point and sending the data wirelessly to a centralized database maintained by the University of Texas Center for Space Research.
The TX SNETS solution allows the state to monitor the evacuees’ status, keep family members and pets together, and provide information to loved ones at each stage in the evacuation process. Improving the evacuation process through integrated technology.
When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States, approximately 475,000 evacuees fled
to Texas. More than 126,000 had no identification, 9,000 were special needs individuals, and 2,000
children under eighteen were unaccompanied by an adult. “It was a major relief operation,” recalls Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM).
The GDEM invited Motorola (VN: check out their board of directors, JP Morgan, Chase, etc, they love us too since we are their cattle/assets) and other private sector technology providers to develop an effective, secure solution that would help the state evacuate and track special needs individuals quickly, efficiently and safely. With special needs redefined as anyone who could not self-evacuate for any reason, the numbers of potential evacuees increased dramatically, adding layers of complexity to the challenge. A rapid
registration process and a secure method of tracking each evacuee, as well as their pets, wheelchairs, walkers, and other necessities, throughout the entire evacuation process was critical. (VN: If we assume Depopulation and Eugenics are a consideration here, then those special needs people will be in serious jeopardy just like in Katrina).
Motorola partnered with Retriever Software (VN: A Geneva board member, Rothschilds BIS bank is there) and Radiant RFID (VN: check out this board chairman, its interesting, this is an international effort here, but this one is a texas company with a very interesting chairman) to create an integrated technology solution using Radiant RFID’s customized bar-coded RFID wristbands and RFID portals, Retriever’s tracking application software, and Motorola’s rugged MC9094 handheld computers.
“We worked with about 58 private groups to make this system happen and those groups were essential
to developing answers that work in the real world,” Chief Colley says. “For example, Motorola gives us
great support from border security to evacuations. They are there when we need them most. We’re
dealing with life and death, not proficiency issues, so the technology has to work, it cannot fail.”
Smooth efficient registration process
The process is simple. Upon arrival at a designated evacuation center, National Guardsmen collect and
enter each family’s information into the tracking system using a laptop computer or a MC9094 handheld wireless computer. A rugged device designed for the most demanding, high stress field environment, the MC9094 provides emergency personnel with true mobility, enabling them to register evacuees on-site at the evacuation hub. Data input errors are reduced by a user-friendly software application with a standard template. And the rapid deployment of over 500 handheld mobile computers meant that the equipment would be there when it was needed.
“The contributions made by the Motorola team were nothing less than spectacular,” says Cynthia Rubio,
president of Radiant RFID. “Product knowledge, responsiveness and perseverance were huge factors
that contributed to the successful deployment of this system.”
Keeping family and pets together and loved ones informed. After the data is collected, each family member
is given an RFID wristband with a serial number that matches the record in the database. Pets and physical or medical equipment are given corresponding tags. The information is wirelessly transmitted to the master database housed at the University of Texas Center for Space Research in Austin. (VN: A Carnegie Foundation recipient, we know about this foundation, as well as massive grants from the government and they will house the master data base.... yessiree)
“The scale of mass evacuation demands a new approach to command control and the creation of a
system that registers evacuees in real-time at their departure points,” says Dr. Gordon Wells, Program
Manager, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin. “One of our jobs (at the Center) is to
track the location, capacity and current occupancy of the evacuation shelters. So tracking the location of
the evacuees as they move through the process and monitoring bus locations through GPS technology
was a natural activity we could expand on.”
Tracking enabled by wireless devices (VN: your going to really love this one. If you know anything about shipping cattle or assets, then words like "manifest" will definitely ring a bell, branding would be about the same thing.)
National Guardsmen also use the Motorola handheld computers to scan the wristbands as evacuees
board buses for transport to the shelters. Before departure, the Guardsmen print out a manifest for
the driver to help account for each evacuee after fuel stops and comfort station breaks. Buses are equipped with GPS units, enabling the Center for Space Research to track and report their locations and speeds every 30 seconds. (VN: now that is control, every 30 seconds when you have valuable cargo like that)
Upon arrival at the shelter, evacuees either walk through an RFID portal or their wristbands are manually scanned, updating their status and transmitting the information to the master database. A printed manifest is then provided to the shelter host. TX SNETS keeps evacuees, their pets, and their medical necessities together and allows family members to contact the Texas 2-1-1 information and referral service to track evacuees’ status and current location. (VN: you read this and you just feel so good about how much they care about you, don't you?)
“Time is the enemy,” says Chief Colley. “You have to help people very quickly. TX SNETS is a very simple process and it works. Taking care of our citizens first and foremost."
By the time Hurricane Dean threatened the Texas coast in August of 2007, the state was ready and waiting
with TX SNETS securely in place and poised to evacuate 150,000 people on 3,000 buses.
“When you’re dealing with people, not just assets, there is a moral responsibility to get it right,” says Sheila
Donnelly, president, Retriever Software. “When the system is allowed to proceed as planned and exercised
by Emergency Operations, the information is moved efficiently and accurately and the level of confidence
and calmness increases.”
For the state, TX SNETS provides a smooth, efficient process of effectively allocating search and rescue
resources for those who for any reason cannot self-evacuate. For evacuees, it means no longer having to
worry about losing a child in the chaos, leaving behind a pet, or being separated from critical special-needs
devices. For loved ones, it means keeping tabs on family members. And for all, it controls the turmoil and
reduces the extreme stress of a mass evacuation.
“We live in a world now where catastrophic events occur, whether man-made or natural,” says Chief Colley.
“Our priority is to take care of our citizens first and foremost, and in the 21st century we should be able to do
that. We had great support from the private sector and Motorola was one of them in a big way.”
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
2010-07-04
NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed As The "Elephant In The Room"
NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed As The "Elephant In The Room"
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/911_Aircraft_Speed_Deets.html
06/22/2010 - Pilots for 911 Truth
Recently Pilots For 9/11 Truth have analyzed the speeds reported for the aircraft utilized on 9/11. Numerous aviation experts have voiced their concerns regarding the extremely excessive speeds reported above Maximum Operating for the 757 and 767, particularly, United and American Airlines 757/767 Captains who have actual flight time in all 4 aircraft reportedly used on 9/11. These experts state the speeds are impossible to achieve near sea level in thick air if the aircraft were a standard 757/767 as reported. Combined with the fact the airplane which was reported to strike the south tower of the World Trade Center was also producing high G Loading while turning and pulling out from a dive, the whole issue becomes incomprehensible to fathom a standard 767 can perform such maneuvers at such intense speeds exceeding Maximum Operating limits of the aircraft. Especially for those who research the topic thoroughly and have expertise in aviation.
Co-Founder of Pilots For 9/11 Truth Rob Balsamo recently interviewed a former NASA Flight Director in charge of flight control systems at the NASA Dryden Flight Research facility who is also speaking out after viewing the latest presentation by Pilots For 9/11 Truth - "9/11: World Trade Center Attack".
Retired NASA Senior Executive Dwain Deets published his concerns on the matter at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as follows:
A Responsibility to Explain an Aeronautical Improbability
Dwain Deets
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Senior Executive Service - retired)
AIAA Associate Fellow
The airplane was UA175, a Boeing 767-200, shortly before crashing into World Trade Center Tower 2. Based on analysis of radar data, the National Transportation and Safety Board reported the groundspeed just before impact as 510 knots. This is well beyond the maximum operating velocity of 360 knots, and maximum dive velocity of 410 knots. The possibilities as I see them are: (1) this wasn’t a standard 767-200; (2) the radar data was compromised in some manner; (3) the NTSB analysis was erroneous; or (4) the 767 flew well beyond its flight envelope, was controllable, and managed to hit a relatively small target. Which organization has the greater responsibility for acknowledging the elephant in the room? The NTSB, NASA, Boeing, or the AIAA? Have engineers authored papers, but the AIAA or NASA won’t publish them? Or, does the ethical responsibility lie not with organizations, but with individual aeronautical engineers? Have engineers just looked the other way?
The above entry remained at the moderated AIAA Aerospace America Forum for approximately two weeks before being removed without explanation. Click "Who is Ethically Responsible" submitted by Dwain Deets at the Pilots For 9/11 Truth Forum for discussion on this entry at AIAA.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/911_Aircraft_Speed_Deets.html
06/22/2010 - Pilots for 911 Truth
Recently Pilots For 9/11 Truth have analyzed the speeds reported for the aircraft utilized on 9/11. Numerous aviation experts have voiced their concerns regarding the extremely excessive speeds reported above Maximum Operating for the 757 and 767, particularly, United and American Airlines 757/767 Captains who have actual flight time in all 4 aircraft reportedly used on 9/11. These experts state the speeds are impossible to achieve near sea level in thick air if the aircraft were a standard 757/767 as reported. Combined with the fact the airplane which was reported to strike the south tower of the World Trade Center was also producing high G Loading while turning and pulling out from a dive, the whole issue becomes incomprehensible to fathom a standard 767 can perform such maneuvers at such intense speeds exceeding Maximum Operating limits of the aircraft. Especially for those who research the topic thoroughly and have expertise in aviation.
Co-Founder of Pilots For 9/11 Truth Rob Balsamo recently interviewed a former NASA Flight Director in charge of flight control systems at the NASA Dryden Flight Research facility who is also speaking out after viewing the latest presentation by Pilots For 9/11 Truth - "9/11: World Trade Center Attack".
Retired NASA Senior Executive Dwain Deets published his concerns on the matter at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as follows:
A Responsibility to Explain an Aeronautical Improbability
Dwain Deets
NASA Dryden Flight Research Center (Senior Executive Service - retired)
AIAA Associate Fellow
The airplane was UA175, a Boeing 767-200, shortly before crashing into World Trade Center Tower 2. Based on analysis of radar data, the National Transportation and Safety Board reported the groundspeed just before impact as 510 knots. This is well beyond the maximum operating velocity of 360 knots, and maximum dive velocity of 410 knots. The possibilities as I see them are: (1) this wasn’t a standard 767-200; (2) the radar data was compromised in some manner; (3) the NTSB analysis was erroneous; or (4) the 767 flew well beyond its flight envelope, was controllable, and managed to hit a relatively small target. Which organization has the greater responsibility for acknowledging the elephant in the room? The NTSB, NASA, Boeing, or the AIAA? Have engineers authored papers, but the AIAA or NASA won’t publish them? Or, does the ethical responsibility lie not with organizations, but with individual aeronautical engineers? Have engineers just looked the other way?
The above entry remained at the moderated AIAA Aerospace America Forum for approximately two weeks before being removed without explanation. Click "Who is Ethically Responsible" submitted by Dwain Deets at the Pilots For 9/11 Truth Forum for discussion on this entry at AIAA.
Flu Vaccines, pharma fraud, quack science, the CDC and WHO -- all exposed by Richard Gale and Gary Null
Flu Vaccines, pharma fraud, quack science, the CDC and WHO -- all exposed by Richard Gale and Gary Null
http://www.naturalnews.com/z029124_flu_vaccines_quackery.html
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published July 2 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) A remarkable article was published today by authors Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null of the Progressive Radio Network (http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/ ). It may be the most shocking (and important) public health article published in the last two years. If you read just one health article this entire month, make it this one.
The article is remarkable not just for its timeliness on the issue of mandatory vaccinations and public health policy, but also for its damning evidence that exposes the fraud and quackery of the vaccine industry (as well as the corruption at the CDC and WHO). (VN: These are the organizations that will be running our lives under a fascist global NWO, is this what we are willing to put up with?)
As you'll read below, flu vaccines remain a mainstay modern medicine only because they provide a reliable source of profits for the pharmaceutical industry which now virtually dictates public health policy thanks to its powerful lobbying resources. And the CDC, for its part, has now become little more than the regulatory branch of Big Pharma, pushing vaccines on the entire population even though the scientific evidence reveals quite clearly that flu vaccines simply do not work. (Vitamin D actually works far better at preventing flu infections, but the CDC won't recommend vitamin D to anyone.)
What you're about to read below is absolutely shocking. If you're a reader of NaturalNews, you probably already realized the vaccine industry was a sham, but I bet you didn't know just how deep this rabbit hole really goes... until now.
That's why I'm reprinting the entire article by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null below. Here's a link to the original source: http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ric...
Give this article a serious read. It is one of the most important articles you'll ever find on this topic. Dr. Gary Null, you may already know, is one of the most brilliant researchers, thinkers and writers in the health freedom field, and I've come to respect his work a great deal. I don't yet personally know Richard Gale, but his words carry tremendous weight.
http://www.naturalnews.com/z029124_flu_vaccines_quackery.html
NaturalNews.com printable article
Originally published July 2 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) A remarkable article was published today by authors Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null of the Progressive Radio Network (http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/ ). It may be the most shocking (and important) public health article published in the last two years. If you read just one health article this entire month, make it this one.
The article is remarkable not just for its timeliness on the issue of mandatory vaccinations and public health policy, but also for its damning evidence that exposes the fraud and quackery of the vaccine industry (as well as the corruption at the CDC and WHO). (VN: These are the organizations that will be running our lives under a fascist global NWO, is this what we are willing to put up with?)
As you'll read below, flu vaccines remain a mainstay modern medicine only because they provide a reliable source of profits for the pharmaceutical industry which now virtually dictates public health policy thanks to its powerful lobbying resources. And the CDC, for its part, has now become little more than the regulatory branch of Big Pharma, pushing vaccines on the entire population even though the scientific evidence reveals quite clearly that flu vaccines simply do not work. (Vitamin D actually works far better at preventing flu infections, but the CDC won't recommend vitamin D to anyone.)
What you're about to read below is absolutely shocking. If you're a reader of NaturalNews, you probably already realized the vaccine industry was a sham, but I bet you didn't know just how deep this rabbit hole really goes... until now.
That's why I'm reprinting the entire article by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null below. Here's a link to the original source: http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ric...
Give this article a serious read. It is one of the most important articles you'll ever find on this topic. Dr. Gary Null, you may already know, is one of the most brilliant researchers, thinkers and writers in the health freedom field, and I've come to respect his work a great deal. I don't yet personally know Richard Gale, but his words carry tremendous weight.
IS THE GULF A "ROTHSCHILD-SINO-ISRAELI WAR" AGAINST AMERICA?
Vatic Note: Thanks, Richard, this was a very enlightening anaylsis of the apparent plan they have prepared for us to their advantage. Its going to be very interesting in how all this shakes out. Right now we are getting our butts whooped in Afghanistan so I am not sure just how effective the proven incompetents are going to be in promoting this to reality. We will see.
IS THE GULF A "ROTHSCHILD-SINO-ISRAELI WAR" AGAINST AMERICA?
by Dick Eastman, Commentary, Washington state, USA
Rothschild-Sino-Israeli war strategists knew they could not occupy US South and US Midwest without heavy losses and protracted Taliban-like resistance. So they devised this grand strategy:
Forced migration and fratricide that destroys both sides.
Southern Conservative attacking Midwest Populists in a war of predetermined mutual destruction -- after which the armies of the new feudal aristocracy occupy the land and the possibilities of our way of life vanish from among mankind perhaps for centuries. That's their plan, now initiated.
The South is hit by environmental sabotage that makes the land incapable of sustaining the regional population. The starving South is constrained by food chain disruption and a poisoned environment to invade the Midwest in a great unorganized migration/attack seeking to live off the land one way or another. The Midwest already at the margin of subsistence due to draining financial and economic warfare soon see that these immigrants cannot be employed -- there is no purchasing power to hire them -- and can only be viewed as an infestation of wingless locusts. But it is just one more application of strategy that has been been applied in a hundred countries on a thousand occasions throughout recorded human history. When the final conquerors to claim the land all they will need to do is bury their already dead enemy.
IS THE GULF A "ROTHSCHILD-SINO-ISRAELI WAR" AGAINST AMERICA?
by Dick Eastman, Commentary, Washington state, USA
Rothschild-Sino-Israeli war strategists knew they could not occupy US South and US Midwest without heavy losses and protracted Taliban-like resistance. So they devised this grand strategy:
Southern Conservative attacking Midwest Populists in a war of predetermined mutual destruction -- after which the armies of the new feudal aristocracy occupy the land and the possibilities of our way of life vanish from among mankind perhaps for centuries. That's their plan, now initiated.
The South is hit by environmental sabotage that makes the land incapable of sustaining the regional population. The starving South is constrained by food chain disruption and a poisoned environment to invade the Midwest in a great unorganized migration/attack seeking to live off the land one way or another. The Midwest already at the margin of subsistence due to draining financial and economic warfare soon see that these immigrants cannot be employed -- there is no purchasing power to hire them -- and can only be viewed as an infestation of wingless locusts. But it is just one more application of strategy that has been been applied in a hundred countries on a thousand occasions throughout recorded human history. When the final conquerors to claim the land all they will need to do is bury their already dead enemy.
American Military Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan Now Exceed 500,000 (Part 1 of 2)
American Military Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan Now Exceed 500,000 (Part 1 of 2)
http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article15450
Pentagon fudges the numbers to placate American public
Friday 18 June 2010, by Matthew Nasuti, Kabul Press
Since 2001, the Pentagon has sought to downplay overall U.S. military losses by artfully redefining what is a combat-related “casualty.” It has published and then changed the rules several times regarding the reporting of casualties. Currently the Pentagon uses DoD Instruction 1300.18 to arbitrarily separate out “wounded in action” from non-battle injuries. Wounded in action is narrowly defined to essentially be an injury directly caused by an adversary. So called “friendly fire” injuries and deaths would apparently not be counted. The emphasis is on acute injuries caused by enemy munitions which pierce or penetrate.
Under this scheme, chronic injuries and many acute internal injuries such as hearing impairment, back injuries, mild traumatic brain injuries, mental health problems and a host of diseases suffered by personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are usually not counted as being war-related regardless of how debilitating they are. They are either generally lumped into the category of “non-hostile wounded” or simply not counted at all.
Officially, the Pentagon admits that approximately 5,500 troops have been killed and only 38,000 wounded, amounting to 43,500 total casualties. What is left out (according to such sources as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine and the U.S. Navy) are:
http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article15450
Pentagon fudges the numbers to placate American public
Friday 18 June 2010, by Matthew Nasuti, Kabul Press
Since 2001, the Pentagon has sought to downplay overall U.S. military losses by artfully redefining what is a combat-related “casualty.” It has published and then changed the rules several times regarding the reporting of casualties. Currently the Pentagon uses DoD Instruction 1300.18 to arbitrarily separate out “wounded in action” from non-battle injuries. Wounded in action is narrowly defined to essentially be an injury directly caused by an adversary. So called “friendly fire” injuries and deaths would apparently not be counted. The emphasis is on acute injuries caused by enemy munitions which pierce or penetrate.
Under this scheme, chronic injuries and many acute internal injuries such as hearing impairment, back injuries, mild traumatic brain injuries, mental health problems and a host of diseases suffered by personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are usually not counted as being war-related regardless of how debilitating they are. They are either generally lumped into the category of “non-hostile wounded” or simply not counted at all.
Officially, the Pentagon admits that approximately 5,500 troops have been killed and only 38,000 wounded, amounting to 43,500 total casualties. What is left out (according to such sources as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine and the U.S. Navy) are:
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